Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 241, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 October 1916 — CALL FOR MUCH HAND WORK [ARTICLE]

CALL FOR MUCH HAND WORK

All Neg I i gee sMustßeElabo ratel yEm - broidered to Be Considered Strictly Fashionable. “War promotes fancy negligees,” reads an article in one of the daily papers. The headline seemed strange until one read down the column, then it could be readily understood, and one must acknowledge that such seems to be the case. Due to war, it has been impossible to procure enough workers to operate the machines necessary to turn out the required number of negligees, thus women have been compelled to make them But now the women of the Philippines have been busy with other women embroidering these garments, with the resulLthat a negllgee unless it has much hand work on it is not of any great value. Many, women who desire to forget that war is raging around