Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 113, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 May 1918 — Page 3

[?] EAST of the [?] EAST

PUBLIC attention has been drawn to Vladivostok, Russia’s great Pacific ocean port, by the possibility that Japan might Intervene to save the immense stores sent there by the allies to help the Russians in their fight against Germany. Vladivostok or “Queen of tile East,” as the name signifies, Is the eastern terminus of the great Trans-Siberian railway, Marion H. Dampman writes in the Pittsburgh Gazette-Times. The corresponding western garrison city is called Vladlkaukas or “Queen of th? Caucasus.” At one end of the long main avenue of Vladivostok stands an imposing statue of Admiral Nevelskol, who laid the foundation of Russia’s occupancy of Pacific ports; on the statue are inscribed the famous words of Czar Nicholas I, “Where the Russian flag has been hoisted it must never be lowered.” At the other end of the avenue, where the railroad crosses the boulevard toward Europe, is a post on which is engraved in gigantic letters the simple statement: “Vladivostok to St. Petersburg, 9,922 Versts.” The mean annual temperature of Vladivostok is about 40 degrees Fahrenheit, although It lies in the same latitude as Marseilles, France, and Buffalo, N. Y. Its bay is ice bound from the middle of December to the beginning of March; but sea communication is rendered possible by ice breakers. Its elevation above the sea is considerable and there are no barriers to the north to protect it from the piercing winds; while the Japanese archipelago interposes so as to prevent any advantage being derived from the warm waters of the Black current, the Gulf stream of the Pacific. Splendidly situated at the head of a peninsula about twelve miles long, separating two deep. bays, whose shores, however, are completely sterile, Vladivostok faces the western and more important of the two bays in a harbor called the Golden Horn. The shallowest part of the harbor is 12 fathoms in depth and is so extensive that 60 steamers of 5.000 tons each could ride there, leaving broad channels for maneuvering for a navy. There are no artificial breakwaters, .as nature provided such in a massive ’lsland directly athwart the entrance to the bay which acts as a fortress not only toward the angry sea but toward Invading fleets. On this Island the Manchuria sllka or spotted deer are preserved. The Vladivostok harbor is considered vastly superior to that of Port Arthur, .which is 530 miles farther south, except in climatic conditions. More Men Than Women. The town was founded in 1860 and has a shifting population, variously estimated from 75,000 to 120,000, which includes many soldiers, Chinese, Jap- , anese and Koreans. The houses are stone and several stories in height, presenting quite an imposing appearance in comparison with the small wooden-housed towns of interior Siberia. Its streets are lively but vastly different from Vancouver, Tacoma and Seattle, on the American side of the Pacific. Pigtailed Chinese in blue, Koreans in white and Japanese in varicolored costumes are mixed with soldiers, sailors and Hutopeans In civilian garb. There are many more jpnen than women; for most of the inhabitants are there to amass fortunes and expect to return- to their homes and families when/they have done so. Living, too, costs veA high, which Is another reason for -not making it a permanent abode. • Seen from the sea the town rises in terraces. Ths houses glitter in the aun and give an invitation to land. Once on shore one is quickly impressed with being in a money-mak-ing place and not a place of residence. Cargoes hastily discharged are stacked high In every available place. The streets are crowded with horses, carts and men of all nationalities. There is one fine street, on which are the residences of the governor, the commander of the port and many other magnates. There are several fine

View of the Port of Vladivostok.

monuments, one of which Is in honor of the last czar’s visit. There are numerous churches, Roman Catholic, Greek Catholic and Lutherans; a museum Is noted for Its collection of weapons and costumes of the far East; and the Orient institute was opened In 1899 for the study of Asiatic languages. The crispneps of the air, the newness of everything and the general hustle and stir are suggestive of Alaska rather than the Orient, were It not for the ponies with their Russian harness and the prevalent Russian beards. Piled High With Supplies. All things consumed in the town and all the adjacent territory must be imported, as locally there are only bricks, matches, lumber and a bad beer to be had. No risk of seizure being foreseen, great speculative possibilities being open to traders, and the port offering the best means of sending provisions and munitions to Russia, combined to produce an extraordinary state of affairs in that faraway city. There is a perfect glut- of coal, kerosene, cotton, flour and muni tlpns of all kinds waiting for furthei transportation and with no protection. European express trains could traverse the long distance between Petro< grad and Vladivostok in less than a week; but it is not possible to run trains oyer the Siberian railway at such high speeds, as the road is constructed lightly, so the journey re quires nine days, and previous to the war was done twice weekly by express trains. The fare was more-than $275, the difficulties varying from sheets and soap to pistols and mosquito veils. The plan to construct this great Russian railway was started as early as 1875, but it was not begun until 1891. The Vladivostok station w-as opened by the recent czar in 1897. It is an excellent building, but has been used so much for the coming and going of troops that its dirt and dllapida-" tion make the weary traveler feel as though he had stepped Into an abandoned emigration camp. Very light rails are used on the tracks of the Trans-Siberian road, but Russian engineers believe in very heavy ties; timber may be had for the asking. So half deeply embedded in ballast, 'to give the traces the strength Americans provide with heavier rails. It Is a Free Port. ' The Importance of Vladivostok Iles in the fact that it is the natural warehouse of this vast region, both from a commercial and a military point of view. Russia, China, Korea and Japan are all interested in Its trade and connected with it by railroad or ship communications. *lt has been a free port and Russia has been remarkably liberal in encouraging other nations in helping her to build up an evergrowing traffic and develop . the resources of a rich inland frontier. Germany is fully alive to the value of this trade, whose value Is ever growing; and when the war gamble Is over she would like to. possess it. The presence of large Korean agricultural communities very near, great Chinese immigration tide surging in the district. the unceasing activity of the Japanese fishing boats that trade along the coast, the fact that European culture is not yet definitely es-tablished-all these things appeal to % the German mind, with visions of possibilities for the future. Vladivostok is Immensely strong as a naval fortress, being surrounded by 76 forts on the seaward side, but at the rear there Is a great open country that now Iles at the mercy of bolshevik! sympathizers and German spies. Russia’s chief dread has been of nearby Japan; so her fortification of Vladivostok has all pointed toward that power that lies only 450 miles across the Japan sea.

“Why do they refer to a statesman as a solon?” “The word is derived from the dead languages,” answered the man who assumes to know everything, “and refers to a statesman’s instinctive desire to get on a platform and do an oratorical sdl<£”

Wild Guess.

THE EVENING REPUBLICAN. RENSSELAER, IND.

Little-Hat Lady

By JANE OSBORN

(Copyright, 1918, by the McClure Newspaper Syndicate.) Designing hats for a popular-price wholesale millinery establishment was not Upton Pread’s ideal pf a stalwart, life-sized man’s occupation. Still even young men with that innate feeling for line and color that maVks them —or brands them —as artists before they have had a fair chanCe to determine for themselves whether they wish to follow an artist’s, career or not, have to eat and have to be clothed, and designing women’s hats seemed at the time to be the only opportunity that afforded what PrCad considered a living wage. Getting "fin occasional order for a portrait perhaps was more the sort of thing he had dreamed of, and more the sort of thing his friends expected. but it would not have provided for him a comfortable existence at the Stanley Arms, and Upton Pread found that living at that well-appointed little hotel had advantages that offset the designing of hats. Still Upton did not like to have people "know the nature of his “artistic” work. In the morning after breakfast he got out his drawing board and. shut up tn his Snug little chintz room, he would call into being first the image of heads of fair women, and then, as If by magic, he would summon hats to crown them. Hastily and with quick stroke of his pencil he would sketch the pretty heads and then, with minuteness that made reproduction by a milliner possible, he would portray the hat. Having made some four or five sketches he would, roll them up securely in his portfolio and, after having had luncheon In the hotel dining room, he would sally forth to the millinery establishment, there to deliver his wares. They were not always accepted. In fact, he was expected only to deliver two deslms a day and he made sometimes as many as six. After his visit to the milliner’s he had a good part of the afternoon free —not entirely free, either, for If he elected to go to one of the fashionable indoor ice rinks he always had before him the task of studying the women’s hats, not so much to “get ideas” for designs but to learn —what to him was the hardest lesson—what women thought was becoming. Upton had ideas of his own about beauty in women’s apparel, and often when he made a design that he thought was his masterpiece it was only to have the manager of the millinery establishment push the design aside, declaring that If he put out hats like that his business would be ruined. So Upton would carry back the rejected drawings' and crush them into his waste basket and start afresh the next morning with an effort to surpass his own notions about hats. Upton always worked in secrecy. You see he was not proud of his calling. If the substantial, slow-moving chambermaid happened still to be setting his room to rights when he returned from breakfast, he was loath to get out his drawing things, but lingered over his morning paper or walked idly about his room. One day after she had left the room and he had begun in earnest, there was a knock at his door and, without waiting for Upton to call out “come.” the chambermaid stuck her head In the door. She held a waste basket in her hand. “You don’t make a mistake, sir, do you, and throw away picters you want?” she asked. “Some of these here pretty girl’s heads, I mean, seems ’most too good to throw away.” “Oh. those,” Upton said as the woman held up a crushed and crumpled girl’s head wearing what the day before he had judged one of his best designs only to have it condemned as impossible by the practical millinery manager, “those are rubbish. I just do them —to amuse myself, as it w’ere.” And the chambermaid withdrew, dragging her mop and carpet sweeper after her.

The hat in question was inspired by a mussel shell. Upton had seen hats that were inspired by roses and sweet peas and even by canary birds. That sort of thing was trite. He happened to have a few shells that he had gathered on the sea shore the summer before and treasured for no very good reason, and it occurred to him one day that in the graceful curves of the mussel shell and in its deep, penetrating black with brown, green and blue shadings. he might devise a hat that would be worth desigping. The head he drew for this design was the head of a sea nymph. He always made the faces first to suit the hats —If the hat showed Japanese influence the girl was slightly slant-eyed, if she wore a sombrero she was of Spanish features. The hat was of black silk above with shadings of brown and blue and the lining beneath the brim was of the shimmering gray of the Inside of a mussel shell. Upton really reveled in this hat —only to have It rejected the next day at headquarters, while an insipid little hat of dark blue straw with a cherry dangling at one side was pronounced a “winner.” Upton had not learned his lesson. In another daring mood he designed a hat that he said was Inspired by a German air raid at night, though the millinery manager did not even attempt to see the similarity. He did admit, however, that the design was original and might do for a theatrical J costtrme, but for his purposes—never. And that was consigned to the waste basket, where a few days before had

gone th? mussel-shell hat and on another day a hat'that had been suggested by the coion and shape of a spring ’onion. Upton had had them for dinner the night before and had actually carried one to his room, put It In water and taken his design from life. That also was among the failures. Upton knew that onion hat of his was original. Still some one else must have designed it simultaneously. For a week later as Upton sat at dinner he looked up and there two tablet, M the very pretty golden-brown blonde who dined alone and seemed to have few friends —Upton had seen her often and, ppt. infrequently recalled her face and coloring when summoning up Imaginary models In his room —there, sat the little blonde wearing the onion hat. Yes, It -was eactly like the hat he had designed, with the colors as given in his sketch reproduced exactly. An expert milliner could not have reproduced the sketch more faithfully, and the little blonde was just the model for that hat. Upton was in a fever of excitement. He wanted to tell his friends of the but to do so would have necessitated telling of his own role as a hat designer. Then —and thjs was really too much for Upton’s peace of mind—the little blonde appeared one tempestuous spring night when the rain was pouring outside and the wind could be heard rushing around the window panes—she appeared in the' hat that he had designed when thinking of an airplane raid pt night, and tnthe eyes that seemed all tenderness and mildness under the spring onion hat there was now a haunting look of distress and sorrow. But it was unmistakably Upton’s hat. Then appeared the real masterpiece—the musselshell hat, and this seemed 'to suit the little blonde’s face better even than the others. It was a marvelous hat and it was worn by a wonderful model. Upton noticed the eyes of other diners focussed on it and he realized then his in designing It, though he could not guess how the hat had been made. There was nothing at all striking in the cut or coloring of the hat — in the usual acceptance of the word. That it attracted attention was, Upton knew, simply because it was distinctive.

After that Upton’s models were all alike. The little blonde face haunted him and the millinery manager asked him to try and vary the type of hats he designed. They were all made for the same type of face. Upton begem to lose sleep. It was not so much the mystery of the matter, though it was odd enough to have another person extract ideas from your mind in this way and bring into realization so successfully your thwarted dreams. The thing was that Upton was very much in love with the little blonde and that the little blonde was not absolutely indifferent as to his existence he might have learned to his own satisfaction from the way her eyes dropped to her plate whenever he .looked toward her at dinner. > Finally after she had been wearing the three hats for three weeks he could stand the suspense no longer,, and he bravely followed her out of the' dining room one night, and with the manner of an old friend bade her/ a good evening. Not being repulsed, he sat talking with her in the hotel reception room. Upton was a very direct sort of persojj and even before he sought to solve the mystery he told her that he was more Interested in her than he had ever been in any girl before, and she, sweet, frank child that she was, told him that she was very glad of that, for she lonely in the big city and didn’t know any nice young men. That was encouragement enough even for a faint heart, and Upton’s was not faint. Then Upton spoke of the hats. When he told her that he had designed them, she turned very scarlet and said she didn’t know that it was from his room the chambermaid had got them. She said she had come to the city to study millinery, as the only talent she had ever displayed was that of making her own hats. So she had come and had expected to succeed in the school until she discovered that to begin with the pupils had to draw their own designs of hats and she simply could not draw. She told the chambermaid her troubles because she had no one else to talk to, and was all but decided to return home discouraged when the chambermaid brought her the criimpled drawings from one of the waste baskets. She had taken them to school and passed them off as her own work. It was dishonest but she was eager to succeed. Then she had worked out the designs and she had taken every prize the school offered. One of her hats was going to be sent to the international millinery exhibit—the mussel-shell one. The Instructors were wild over it and a very well-known artist who gave thefn lectures on colors had declared that another was a masterpiece in tones. It suggested an air raid at night, he said, thotigh she couldn’t see how he thought that. “So they are masterpieces, after all.” Upton sighed, and before the evening was far spent they had not ? only settled fill the plans for the Weddffig but were dreaming dreams of starting an exclusive shop In which they would combine their talents. /

Plain Talk.

He—l don’t have much trouble about recommendations. I suppose my face speaks for itself? She—Yes. and It’s pretty plain talk. Boston Evening Transcript.

Handicapped.

Sergeant—What are you doing with your gun over your shoulder, Casey 1 I said right shoulder shift. Casey—Sure, snr .tkat comoa of refi bein’ left handed. sur.

WHAT CAN WE DO?

The Central Division Bulletin of the American Red Cross Issues the fol* k>wlng appeal to young women, stating the greatest need now is for more nurses: Urgent need of 5.000 more trained nurses for the army by June 1, of which number the Central division is asked to enroll* 635, Is announced by Burgeon General William C. Gorgas of the United States army. For the whole year of 1918- there must be enrolled 35,000 for the government. Military hospitals in this country and in France must have the 5,000 nurses to fake care of the wounded in the great fighting that any day riiay start on the western front and continue until next winter. The Red Cross already has supplied 10.000 nurses as a reserve for the army and navy, but with nearly 2,000,000 men under arms the supply is insufficient. Every chapter of the Central division is urged to take immediate steps to get the critical situation before registered nurses to the end that they will enroll for service. Miss Jane A. Delano, director of the bureau of nursing of the American Red Cross, makes the following appeal: “We wish to bring to the attention of nurses the unusual opportunities offered by the insurance law, enacted for the protection of our 'army and navy. The law applies equally to nurses assigned to duty and makes it possible for the

Made to Serve Many Purposes

*lt is the war” perhaps that Is responsible for this dress that looks like a suit but Isn’t. Since designers have been giving so much attention to those two-lmonq frocks that must serve for afternoon and evening—or afternoon and street wear—they seem to have acquired the habit of making things of doubtful Identity. Here is a onepiece garment that evidently Is intended to serve almost any purpose. It looks like a very good substitute for a street suit, it might pass for a coat dress or be worn as a coat, for it opens at the front in the fashion of coats. This new evolution in apparel ought to Interest the summer girl who contemplates saving money on clothes—to spend It on war work or in needed recreation. The receipt for making it Is simple. The body of the garment is semi-flttlng and cut on the usual suit coat lines, extended at the front into a full-length panel. The peplum and skirt are to be joined to this panel —and the thing Is accomplished. For

Veil Dots Are Huge.

Among the most Interesting features is the widespread acceptance of chenille dotted veilings. For some time allover pin-dotted chenilles have been a steady favorite for sale to the more conservative type of consumer, but the use of the large ball chenille in allover effect Is a recent development which promises to assume big proportions as the winter season progresses. Some of the smartest women wear veilings of this type In such shades as taupe, gray, burgundy and browns. Cluster patterns in chenille are likewise noted, but to a lesser degree.

Civil War Fabric Back.

Watered silk, a fabric that was popular In Civil war days. Is returning to favor. It is particularly effective used as a trimmtoa far taffeta orserge.

nurse to secure protection for borssttf at nominal cost, as well as for desig-? nated members of her family. “A great responsibility rests npotti the nurses of the country. They arei the only group of women recognized as I a part of the military establishment. A special appeal Is .made therefore to the nurses of America to volunteer ati once through their nearest local com-; mlttee on Red Cross nursing service.” The appeal of the surgeon generaland of Miss Delano Is approved emphatically by the American Red Cross war council at Washington. There seems to be a general misunderstanding throughout the field res garding materials to be used at that present time. Do not change to summer materials for hospital garments. Continue to use the materials forwinter garments. Make pajamas from; outing flannel, not gingham. Use the; heavy bathrobing for bed jackets andj convalescent gowns. Bed shirts should I be of canton flannel or twilled jeans. We are informed by national headquarters that only the heavier weight; garments -will be shipped abroad, andi we have stored in our warehouses ai sufficient supply of summer weight garments for use in the camp hospitals In this country. Chapters will be informed through the weekly Bulletin of any future change in the materials to be used for hospital garments or the manner in which they are to be made.

ornament It relies wholly on button® and they prove this confidence very well placed. Serviceable materials, like serge, gaberdine, velours, jersey and twill are to be chosen for it There is no telling what new direction the thoughts of designers will take now that this business of economizing in cloth has become fashionable. If many of their efforts turn out as well as the sleeveless jackets and sleeveless waistcoats that have added so much attraction to the season’s modes, we will all advocate economy. Already we are proud of new accomplishments in gingham and other cottons —and oft reminded of the fact that a saving in material does not always mean a saving of money. Bui one should be willing to pay for cleverness —the intangible value of clothea that lies in their good style.

Blouses Remodeled.

When lingerie blouses have become worn and faded, use val lace Insertions and edgings which are low priced and dainty. Cut away all worn places and seams beneath the trimming. They can be made larger by adding lace to the front line and under arms, or lengthened at the waistline by sewing lace across the bottom* then gather on string. A peplum ot lace can be added. \ ,- 5 ; .

For Children’s Coats.

Taffeta is given first place among materials used for spring coats for * children. A spring coat for a child ta v usually only for dressy wear, the sweater being the preferred wrap tor general wear, so that silk eoats am ; quite the thing. -A