Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 209, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 September 1917 — SKIRTS WILL BE TAKEN IN [ARTICLE]

SKIRTS WILL BE TAKEN IN

Paris Styles for Coming Winter Are Designed to Economize on Fabrics. Paris. —Dress styles of the coming winter are designed to economize on woollen fabrics as much as possible. The Master Dressmakers’ association of Paris has decided that not more than 5% yards of cloth shall be used in making- a dress. This compares with an average of ten or twelve yards two years ago and seven yards lasi year. The association also has decided to use silk and national products as much as possible and decrease the amount of cloth imported. The Tailors’ association and the large fashion-' able shops have agreed to this reform and are creating new models to conform to it. Some Flah Story. Portland, Ore.—When George H. Lynn returned from a Hood river fishing trip and cleaned one of his trout he found In the stomach of a 17-lnch specimen a seven-inch mountain trout Stomach fluids were just starting to digest the smaller fish. Curiosity prompted Lynn to open the stomach oi the swallowed fish and there he found the remains of two still smaller trout