Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 239, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 October 1913 — Dropping Blouse. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Dropping Blouse.

There is one alleviation about the large waist line which was evidently an afterthought on the part of the dressmakers. This is the width of the blouse across the back and its fullness at the waist line. All the fashionable blouses are voluminous * below the arms, and they sag two inches ov.er the belt. As you can easily see, this fullness makes the waist line more defined and gives grace to the figure. Even when the belt is high, there is the same effect of the fullness, and the woman who has not yet learned this trick with her blouse should take It up, for it helps matters in a remarkable way.

tlon there will be no need for a police force." It was suggested that the Hounsditch affair, in which London called out a regiment of infantry to capture a trio of anarchists, and the moving picture battles between the Paris police and the automobile bandits, would be inconceivable on this side of the water. "That comes under the head of ‘customs of the service,’ ’’ said New York’s police head. “We do things differently over here. That’s all." New York is the only one of the •four great cities which is under the municipal form of government Here, therefore, and in all other cities similarly governed, the police become an item in the political situation. “While I was in Paris,” said he, “a brigadier and six men were fired for grafting. That would have been a police scandal here. There it was dismissed with a line. Hennlon, who succeeded the famous Lepine as chief of Paris, was not at all satisfied with the bureaucratic detective bureau. He is rebuilding it on the plan in use in Scotland Yard and New York. Hennlon is but forty years old, looks like an American, has the energy of a dynamo and is a great detective. He is constantly on the lookout for improvements. “Under the old plan everything went to the central office in Paris,” said Waldo. "Hennlon is doing away with that and holding his division chiefs responsible for what goes on in their departments. That is the plan we took from Scotland Yard two years ago. Berlin is the only one of the world’s four great cities which still operates its police department under the old plan.

Rhinelander Waldo.