Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 89, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 April 1918 — Page 3

Afternoon Frocks of Taffeta and Crepe

Truly the way of the seeker after pretty frocks that will make themselves generally useful, is easier than It used to be. What with combinations of materials and n vogue for simplicity together with much wartime latitude in the matter of dress, any clever woman can achieve afternoon and evening dresses —Interchangeable —of course. Very formal dress may be left out of the reckoning, for that Is a privilege of these times. But afternoon frocks are a necessity and seem to have benefited by the concentration of attention on them. In the picture of two- models designed for dressy wear, the needs of the slender figure have been considered in the frock at the left, and a fine style for plump figures is portrayed at the right. The gown at. the left is of taffeta in a light russet or deep tan shade. It has a very new tunic effect arranged across the back where it is plaited and extended above the girdle In a fan. The girdle is merely a wide

Whatever your mood this summer you may find adiat that expresses It, but modistes must be counting upon a cheerful, If not a of mind lb their patrons’ for hats are laden with bright flowers and kindly fruits. Plain satin and belting ribbons lend their lovely tones to the millinery spring song and when black and dark colors are Introduced they miss being somber by being brilliant. Everything gleams. If millinery means anything It surely emphasizes a joy In life, or at the very least a refusal to be downhearted this summer. Three lovely hats in the group shown above are as different, each from the others, as can be.'but are all types of the season’s styles. The wide-brimmed hat at the center is pretty and picturesque enough to make a dent in a heart of stone. As a bridesmaid’s hat it would tempt the bride to move forward her wedding day. It Is of orchid pink crepe georgette and tuscan lace braid, with brtm lines that flow about the face in the loveliest of graceful curves. Small grapes clamber over the brim, matching* their beauty with pink roses that deepen to red at the heart. The ruthless milliner has added a final touch of beauty in a long tie of satin ribbon that falls from under the brim at the back. Just below there Is a small hat with a soft crown that Is posed over a wreath of roses set like a crown about the head. The hat Is covered with crepe georgette and faced with chrya-

Types in Millinery Styles

bias strip of the silk, crushed about the waist and' fastened at the left side. Crepe georgette with crosswise tucks and bordered with a fold makes the deep cape collar. The always smart black and white combination has been worked out in new ways since the appearance of novel patterns in figured black and white crepe. In the frock at the right of the picture figured crepe is used for the undefdress and sash, with bodice, sleeves and tunic made of plain black georgette. There is chemisette, of fine tucked crepe, in white. The open sleeves are noteworthy w ith three. wide tucks as a finish. The wide girdle is draped very loosely about the figure below the waistline, with efids falling straight at the left side. There is nothing to break the straight liqes of the silhouette. This, with the narrow underskirt and the undraped tunic and * sash, all made in the softest and sheerest of fabrics, commend the frock to those who are ambitious to achieve slenderness.

anthemum braid. The roses are set on a band covered .with black velvet ribbon that is tied in a small bow at the back. This' is a new departure in hats, as lovely as it is unusual. Speaking of the unusual in millinery, the smart black hat at the left of the picture may certainly lay claim to the distinction which belongs to the entirely new things in styles. This small black satin turban looks as If It were thatched, and it is, with a mass of shiny fibers that resemble grass. They may be silk braid and they may be Japanese aigrettes or glycerine ostrich. Whatever they are they are gleaming and rich locking. A flat wired ornament of grosgrain ribbon is as odd as the hat.

Alluring New Voiles.

Voiles shown this year are alluring, little flowered frocks, ruffled on the sides with vest and collar of sheer white organdie. Plaids in two colors are tucked in a plain color, have plain vest and organdie collar daintily embroidered in garlands of. delicate coloring.

Uses for Old-Waists.

Shirt waists which are out of date and have passed their usefulness as waists can be utilized as guimpes, chemisettes and conet coven.

THE EVENING REPUBLICAN. RENSSELAER. INH.

POSTSCRIPTS

Two gyroscopes are used by an lowa Inventor to keep a motorcycle steady, the rider and motor balancing one another. *MB AsKes from Luzon’s occasionally active volcanos fertilize the soil and enable the Philippines to produce the world’s finest hemp. , The owner of some limestone caves in Virginia has piped the air from them into his house t"o provide an even temperature the year round. Officials in the Philippines are investigating the posslbllify of obtaining larger quantties of a high-grade lubricatlng oil from a vine that grows wild throughout the island. To enable the operator of an oldstyfe typewriter to watch its work as in a visible machine, aq inventor has patented a pair of mirrors to be mounted on it in the proper position. The production of potatoes in England.and Wales last year has been officially estimated at 3,339,095 long tons, about one-third more than the year before and the greatest crop on record. Japanese scientists are searching for an explanation of an apparent relationship between the frequency of earthquakes of Tokyoand the amount of rainfall and snowfall in other parts of the empire. All the works of a new clock are inclosed in a ball representing the world, which slides down a strip of parchment Inscribed wttii the hours, the numerals being pointed out by a figure of Father Time.

SHOTS FROM THE MAGAZINE

After all, the hardest extravagant habit to give up is one’s wife. A lord high admiral of the German navy has resigned; but the navy quit first. Germany seems to have found a good market in the United States for tainted money. A pacifist is one who judges the patent medicine by the almanac that comes with it. Peace treaties are like oranges; picked top soon, they are green; left too long, they are rotten. Many a young man goes to sleep over a harmless flirtation and awakens to find himself married. • Trouble is Inexhaustible; despite the increased number of borrowers there is always enough to go round. Of course the Germans are not taking the American troops in France seriously ; they are not taking them at all. Prospective candidates for state office are respectfully warned that the early boom doesn’t always catch the nomination. German’s peace terms to Russia look suspiciously as though she were trying to squeeze the bears in a cornered market.

DO KNOW THAT—

Indian ink can be made from burned camphor? The planet Pallas was discovered by Olbers, an astronomer, in 1802? Walnuts yield their own weight in oil, the flavor of which is considered equal to that of the finest Lucca oil? The world produces 13,000,000 tons of cotton a year, nine of which come from America and two and a half froiq India? • Scientists have recently discovered that most fishes are able to focus their eyes on near objects, by means of superior and Inferior oblique muscles? An enormous amount of asbestos is being found In the Prieska district, Cape Colony, and thousands of hags are now being shipped to England? It is said to be of very good quality.

ABOUT PERSONS

Mrs. M. A. West, 86 Salt Lake City, has 187 living descendants. Seaman Hardy of Cleveland is the last survivor of Perry’s expedition to Japan. Paul Fell of Shenandoah, Pa., survives a 125-foot fall off a roof. Alighted In a snowbank. Mrs. Bridget Miller of St. Louis, Mo., 27 years an applicant, has just been granted a soldier-widow’s pension. _ Edward Sargent, a millhand dead in Danielson, Conn., was a French nobleman living under an assumed name.

THE CYNIC SAYS

A sure way to be ignorant is to think you know it all. Love based on pity Is apt to come out in the laundry. How difficult to draw the line botween genius and insanity I

WILLIE HOPPE HELD UP AS MODEL AMERICAN BY WASHINGTON PASTOR

William F. Hoppe, champion balkline billlardist of the world, had a new experience recently when he was called to the pulpit of the First Methodist church by Rev. Dr. Francis Burgette Short and introduced to the congregation. Doctor Short was speaking on “The Rejected Man, or American Manhood,” and was discussing what wants to be done with the millions of men who have been rejected by the army because they are.physlcally unfit. He pointed to Mr. Hoppe as an example of clean living. He said,, in part: “You all know what an ardent booster I am of clean sport,” said Doctor Short. “Mr. Hoppe exemplifies clean sport. Years ago when he was a boy he set his eyes on the world’s billiard championship. In order to attain his end he knew that he would have to hold himself under physical subjection. He is a total abstainer from strong drink and other forms 'of physical excesses and has achieved a record in his chosen line of sports never before touched by any individual. His success is largely due to his clean living.” The photo shows Hoppe and his partner. R. B. Patterson, making a few difficult shots for the edification of the jackies-at Mare Island, Cal.

TIMME ONLY PAID $750 FOR A. RANKIN JOHNSON

“The Phillies today would gladly pay $3,000 for Rankin Johnson,” said President Tlmme of the Brewers. “We got him by draft for $750. So we could realize a nice bit of change by the sale, but we want Johnson to pitch for Milwaukee and not Philadelphia. The story coming from Philadelphia that Rankin would pitch there originated In Scott Doyle of that club. I had written Doyle previously that if Johnson refused to play with the Brewers Philadelphia could have him. But since writing him, Johnson has written me and stated that he must positively report to the Brewers, so the Philadelphia deal is off. Rankin wrote me tjiat, while he would prefer to play with the Phillies, he would c<wie to the Brewers if I insisted and I am going to insist.”

BOXING IS VERY POPULAR WITH ALL SOLDIER BOYS

Charlie White of Chicago, the lightweight who Is in charge of boxing at Camp Custer, agrees with cantonment officers that boxing has proved remarkably successful in the training of national soldiers. “The more I think of the boxing situation in camp, the more I am enthused oyer what a wonderful physical builder boxing is,” said White. “I have been working here for several weeks, holding classes every day, and the improvement in men’s, spirit and action is very noticeable. I know one thing from experience. A man cannot box unless he is in good physical condition, and when men are in condition to box three to six hard rounds, I am sure they are in condition to do anything asked of them in camp. “I am working out a schedule now to have boxing bouts nearly every night.” White’s methods and results, have been praised by several cantonment officers. It has been, interesting to note that some of the lightweight’s students are young men who did little or no hard work before drafted.

Joe Kelly in Class A1.

Joe Kelly, Brave outfielder, who was with the Cubs for a short time, is in class 1 in the draft.

Wesleyan Leader Enlists.

Howard V. Widdoes, captain of the Wesleyan baseball team, has quit school to become an aviator.

INTERESTING SPORT PARAGRAPHS

Yale university crewmen practice three days a week. • • • Delaware college will cut out the Thanksgiving day football games. * • • Why is it that when somebody mentions Eddie Collins you think of Heinie Zim? * • • Freddy Parent, former star infielder of the Chicago White SOx, wants to come back. * * • No freak deliveries of any sort will be permitted in the Western league this season. • • • The Braves are bringing back Mickey Doolan. N. L. umpires won’t have such a soft time,-after all. * * * Musser, the new pitcher of the Chicago White Sox, was a strike-out specialist in the minor leagues. » ♦ ♦ On account of war conditions the famous patriots' day marathon race will not be-held in Boston this year. _♦ * * The American Amateur Trapshooters’ association has a membership of 1,500 clubs made up of 100,000 members. ’ Jack Eller, the former champion hurdler, is now doing duty as athletic director somewhere behind the lines tn France. * ♦ ♦ Jimmy Smith, substitute infielder ol the N6w York plants, has been sent to Boston to complete the recent HerzogDoyle deal. • * •. There is a likelihood of a league ol gun clubs being formed among the golf and country clubs of New England this spring.' Dartmouth .college will add wall scaling, obstacle races and tugs-of-war and other military features to novice race meets this year. k,.. * • • • An 18-hole golf course at Atlantic City, open to the public, is one of the possibilities for the near future at the soyth Jersey resort. • • • Benny Leonard is one fighter who does not draw the color line. But then Benny never lets any prejudice interfere with his business. ♦ ♦ ♦ Yale will have Penn varsity and freshmen eight-oared shell crews as rivals in the opening races over the Housatonic river course, Derby, Conn. • * • •- Toledo bowlers already are laying plans for the 1919 tournament of the American Bowling congress, since their city was picked for the next tournament. • * • The Harvard Athletic council has' approved of the plans for a three-cor-nered track meet between Harvard, Yale and Princeton at the Harvard stadium. • * • Al Baird, the Giant youngster who enlisted In the naval reserve force, has organized a ball team at the base In Louisiana at which he Is stationed and has written to the New York club for his bats. •• • - Miss Mary K, Browne, woman’s national tennis champion In 1912, 1913 and 1914. who recently retired. Is one of the few women who ever defeated Miss Molla BjnrstedL Miss Browne now is teller ot a Los Angeles bank.

BIG TITLE HOLDERS. ARE AT CAMP DODGE

Athletes of Renown at lowa Cantonment in Service. 9 Champions of Various Description* Would Make Hard Proposition In Almost Any Kind of Dual Contest—Caddock There. Champions of various description* are becoming so numerous at Camp Dodge that one more or less no longer attracts attention. Earl Caddock, who upheld his claims as champion heavyweight wrestler of the world in his match with Zbyszko recently, is only one of a galaxy of stellar athjetes at Camp Dodge, and the cantonment would be a hand proposition in almost any kind of n dual Contest. Capt. Malcolm Baldridge of battery F, Three Hundred and Thirty-eighth field artillery, is the holder of ths eastern intercollegiate heavyweight wrestling championship, which has not been competed for since 1917, when Baldridge clinched his claim against the best men of Harvard, Princeton, Pennsylvania, Dartmouth and other eastern schools. He is a Yale man. played tackle on the 1916 eleven, and 1 still is eligible for another yeab .on the varsity when the war is over. First Lieutenant Robert A. Gardner of the same regiment won tie national 1 golf title in 1915, and took the intercollegiate pole vault championship for several years, his record as a pole vaulter being 13 feet 1 inch. “Chuck" Laun, bow in training at the officers’ training camp, and a selected service private, was the almost unanimous selection of western critics as a member of the all-western and allconference football elevens last fall, he having played on the lowa team. Lieut. Virgil Rector, who plays center on the officers’ basket ball team, can do better than 12 feet at the pole vault, Is a crack high jumper and won his letter at Dartmouth in football, basket ball and track.

Capt. Paul R. Morrissey, divisional insurance officer, is’holder of the regular army championship as a swordsman, which he won in competition in 1915. He holds the highest pistol shot and rifleman mark. . When Mike O’Dowd of St. Paul arrives at the camp late this month the division will have the two leading middleweights of the country in O’Dowd and Mike Gibbons, boxing instructor. Pitcher Sheehan, formerly a member of Connie Mack’s Athletics, is an enlisted man in one of the medical units. Art Ewoldt, Western league third baseman and member of the Des Moines championship team of that circuit last summer, is another Camp Dodge soldier. First Lieutenant A. C. Potter of the Three Hundred and Thirty-seventh field artillery is a crack tennis player, a former holder of the Nebraska title, Omaha champion and runner-up for a period of several years and well up among the first 50 players in the country in national ranking for several years.

OLD-TIME BALL PLAYERS FAST FADING FROM GAME

Ball players who only a few years ago were starring every day on the diamonds in the big leagues are gradually fading away. Tom Leach was recently released by a minor league club and Harry Davis retired. And now “Wildfire” Schulte has been released by the Phillies. Frank Schulte was a member of the old Cub machine when Frank Chance was its leader. For fifteen years Schulte, who batted left-handed, was noted as the champion right-field fence buster of the league. “Wildfire,” with Slagle and Sheckard, formed the Cubs’ outfield with which Frank Chance won a pennant. Later, when Slagle began to slip back, Artie Hofman took his place and Schulte continued his heavy hitting and more pennants were won.

JEFF SMITH, BOXING INSTRUCTOR. AT DIX

“Jeff"' Smith, middleweight champion, now boxing instructor at Camp Dlx, leaving his quarters to meet his clasx burdened by "Text Books,” just received for the use of his students.