Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 226, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 September 1916 — Most Skirts Are Plaited. [ARTICLE]

Most Skirts Are Plaited.

Flat plaits, sun plaits or rounded plaiting are found on nearly all the new dress skirts. Many of the fine French serges are sun plaited, while heavier materials are side plaited in groups of three or five or front and back, leaving the hips plain. A new plaiting done on tubes extends from the waist to the hips and is then lost in the fullness of the skirt-

Bables Thrive Best en Sunlight. "Sunlight ’ and sanitation, not silks and satins, make better babies,” This maxim is contained in the latest official statement of the surgeon general of the public health service, who directs the forces of the United States against the army of General Disease, Just issued from his “war” office here. The rearing of children In dark, unkept homes is given as one of the chief causes of the continued success of the array of General Disease. The surgeon general announces that the enemy now claims 1,200,909 Americans a year. Heart disease, pneumonia and tuberculosis are the strongest units of General Disease’s army, claiming 30 per cent of the annual number of deaths. The surgeon general renews the admonition to let no fly go unswatted. He points out that every female fly lays eggs at the rate of 120 a time —meaning that many more soldiers for the army of General Disease.