Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 214, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 September 1918 — Page 3

ONE-PIECE FROCK

Wool Jersey Popular Fabric for ' - These Simple Gowns. )' i ... Imported Models Are Being Shown for Early Fall Wear With a Large Collar. Wool jersey continues to be exceedingly popular for the one-piece frock of utmost simplicity. Several of the very good looking imported models are shown for early -tall wear with a large collar which can be dropped about the neck, this arrangement being one which lends an air of distinction to its wearer in these collarless days, observes a fashion writer. It also gives an undeniable serviceable air to a type of frock which would formerly have done duty as a sport costume, but is now considered suitable for all kinds of formal wear. Navy blue wool jersey enjoys seant favor as compared with blue serge, but there seems to be a decided vogue for black jersey, this material being surprisingly attractive. Invariably it Is embroidered in bright colors or White. One smart black'jersey frock for early fall wear was embroidered boldly in black and. white chenille. The high collar and girdle were of knitted chenille in black and white. There Was a crocheted border of white Chenille around the tunic and white buttons fastened the blouse and tunic down the side front Another wool jersey frock was in beige and of monastic simplicity, its -swathing collar being tied by a severe cord with weighted ends. This interesting collar and large patch pockets afforded the only note of relief to the severity of this model. Satin is very much used for the midseason frock and numerous smart new designs in black, gray and blue satin are appearing- these days. A particularly smart model in taupe satin was seen recently. The gown is fashioned on Russian lines and has no trimming save* for a narrow frill of white at. the neck and sleeves. The blouse is fastened at the left side of the front with small round material buttons.

NEW VELVET HATS FOR FALL

Trimmings for Tailored Headgear Include Wings, Quills, Burnt Ostrich Fancies, and Others. A _____ As the fall season draws closer, velvet hats for women are coming into greater use. The popular models, according to the official bulletin of the Retail Millinery Association ica, are made of velvet combined with hatters* plush or panne velvet, and satin antique combined with hatters’ plush, panne velvet, ordinary velvet or beaver cloth. 'ln the tailored models, it says, velvet with beaver and hatters* plush is used extensively. In the “dressier” models the other combinations noted are seen. The trimmings for tailored hats for the new season Include wings, quills, burnt ostrich fancies, ribbon or velvet bows, buckles of cut steel or bone, and both large and small rhinestone pins. For dress hats ostrich bandings, fancies, tips, jet or beaded ornaments, paradise, etc., are used. The leading shades for fall are black, purple, navy, brown, taupe, and sand, though some hats are seen with light-colored facings. The bulletin also says that many velvet models for fall are being com-

GOWN THAT FLATTERS FIGURE

Rich satin, draped in graceful folds that flatter the figure and reveal the luster of the •nest desired for afternoon gowns. The flown pictured Is a wonderful example of the dressy &tln mode.

SKIRT THAT SHOULD APPEAL

Separate skirt of silk poplin, with pointed tunic at aides and back. The flat girdle of poplin is finished with bead tassels.

bined with novelty braids. One of these braids is made of two or three strips of felt joined together with silk floss stitching and Is used on flanges and side crowns. It is seen chiefly In light blue, sand, and rose. Another novelty Is ratine braid, which looks like heavy cloth with a rough finish. It is used mostly on tailored or semisport models.

TO MAKE THE PARASOL BAG

Contrivance Is Roomy, Easily Spread Open and Very Beautiful-Yellow Lining for Black. If you have a handsome parasol beginning to show wear at the center of. the top, carefully remove the silk from the frame and cut out a circle-5 inches in diameter. j From new silk, in a shade to match the predominating color, cut two dr- 1 cles 7 Inches In diameter, placing, pasteboard between these. Fit this Inta the opening made in the .center of the parasol, this forming the bottom of a bag. At the points of parasol sew rings covered with single crochet stitch. Through rings draw silk cord, finishing with large tassels and also place tassels at bottom of bag. This bag Is roomy, easily spread open and very beautiful. If silk Is thin from wear, a lining can easily be added, using a section of parasol for pattern. A black parasol lined with bright yellow with black cord and tassels would be very effective. A bunch of yellow silk oranges could be added.

VOILE DRESSES ARE FAVORED

Fabric of More Substance and Lasting Quality Brings This Material to the Forefront Next in favor to the organdies come the new voile dresses. .There Is a tendency at this season to employ fabrics of a little more substance and lasting quality, and for this reason If for no other we begin to see great number of voile and georgette frocks. A good voile dress much admired brings out several of the latest notions —the modified medic! collar, the sleeveless moyen age blouse and the side panels of contrasting colors. As the body of the dress is of white voile, blue is used for contrast and develops the features just mentioned. The medic! collar on this frock is really more reminiscent of that high flaring fashion than actually the thing Itself, as it is a narrow strip only, rolling, however, high up at the back of the neck to finish in that line so becoming to most women and without which often the handsomest robes seem incomplete. It is of alternating strips of the blue and the white voile and ornamented with French knots, blue on the white and, for contrast, white on the blue, and it becomes the merest point in front where it rolls away from the throat

Panels Swing Loose.

Blow-about frocks seem tp be the dernier crl for street wear. ffhe really smart new models, shown at exclusive houses, are a maze of swinging panels, fringes and fluttering sash ends. In the serene quiet of the shop all these . appendages fall gracefully in straight slender lines about the figure, but wait and watch them when a brisk breeze vhisks around the tall buildings I The - narrow skirt must ding close —It cannot help itself, having no surplus of fabric to flutter, but swinging panels flap like pillow slips on a clothesline, sash ends whisk gayly about and fringes ripple and toss. There will be plenty of motion about the autumn maid—whether sne stands still or paces with dignified restraint of manner. _ "

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HIGHER MORALE FOR YANKS’ KIN

Red Cross Home Service Section Will Look After Folks at Home. TAKE BURDEN FROM SOLDIERS Men in Service Are Often Disheartened by Distressing News From Home—Cheerful Letters From Folks IsGreatest Need. Washington.—The American Red Cross has Issued the Red Cross Handbook. The book which is intended, among other things, to strengthen the morale of the people at home was written by W. Frapk Persons, the director general of civilian relief of the American Red Cross. “Again and’ again word comes from overseas of men disheartened by bad news from home, making a brave effort to go on with their work but with no zest to It,” Mr. Persons says. “It is the task of the home service sections of the Red Cross to see to it that there are in the families of these soldiers no anxieties or problems which are likely to get into inters and bring distress to the soldiers overseas and no loneliness which we could help meet here. Want Letters From Home. “Not comfort kits, nor even smokes will so warm the hearts of our boys as the letter from home saying that all is well and that the home service of the Red Cross is standing by.” Mr. Persons recently returned from France where he organized the bureau of home service in the American Red Cross organization In that country. He Asserted that his observations in France 'made him more firmly convinced than ever that proper conditions in the homes of soldiers and sailors and the maintenance of close contact between the men and their families was necessary to preserve the morale of the soldiers.

“The fighting man wants to know all about what is going on at home,” Mr. Persons continues. “He wants to know all the details about his family and then about his friends and his community generally. He wants to be kept in touch with focal civil affairs and.what is going on In his town and state. We are coming to see that this interest is a powerful support to a ontn’s stamina. It keeps him sane and healthy. It braces him up to know (that those with whom he has lived and who mean so much to him appreciate the sacrifice h& is making. “Any worry about the condition of his dependents or relatives tends to put a soldier into a condition where he is subject to shell shock. I have this on the authority of eminent specialists who are dealing with such cases in the military hospitals. A soldier who is untouched by bullet or shell may, from shell shock, return to his trench in such nervous condition as to require hospital treatment and a long rest. * The best insurance against this serious by-product of modern warfare, the physicians say, is for the man to go over the top or meet a charge In a buoyant, untroubled frame of mind ln which his sole concern is the grim business at hand.

WOMAN BUTCHERS TAKE WAR WORKERS’ PLACES

Rhinelander, Wls. Womanbutchers are among the innovations brought about here because of the war. When Mrs. Frank Durand, whose husband operates a market, learned that the latter could not obtain sufficient help, she donned a cap and apron and proceeded to demonstrate that she knew how to cut meat with the best of them. She IS a permanent member Of the market force now..

BELGIAN QUEEN VISITS BATTLEFIELD

Queen Elizabeth of Belgium recently accompanied King Albert to a battlefield where their troops had just defeated the Huns. The queen is shown shaking the tend of one of the men cited for distinguished service in the fight. __ - - ' . • ' £

Cheerful letters from home help to produce the proper mental attitude, but confidence that the home folks lack for nothing is an essential foundation. Red Cross Will Help. “Soldiers become concerned when letters fall to come regularly, anxious and uneasy when disquieting rumors arrive, and worried and distraught when they learn of troubles at home. An American commander at the front and a leading military surgeon In Paris both stated that the Red Cross could do nothing more Important from a military point of view than to maintain the welfare of’the homes of our fighting men. “There can be no more certain means of steadying his morale than to give him the assurance that, whatever may happen to- his folks at home the home service section of the Red Cross chapter In his own town may be depended upon to act promptly, sympathetically and adequately to maintain the comfort and peace of mind of those he has left behind. “Home service must be as reliable and as considerable, as capable and as effective In helping soldiers’ and sailors’ families as is the trust company that looks after their worldly goods. That is just what home service should be —a huge trust company on which the soldier may rely.”

WOMEN IN LONG AUTO TRIP

Wife of Soldier Travels Alone From Camp in Georgia to Oklahoma City. Oklahoma City, Okla. —Mrs. G. E. Rowland of Elk City, wife of a soldier stationed at Camp Gordon, Ga., arrived here after traveling the distance from the Georgia camp alone In her automobile. She made the trip In eight days, and said that for miles through the country she saw’no one but negroes. Mrs. Rowland went to Georgia to visit her husband, who was expected to leave soon for “overseas.” On her return she followed Sherman's route to the sea.

SEE MENACE IN AIRPLANE

Aged Chicago Woman Hurt by Oil Can Falling From the Sky. Chicago.—A dreadful glimpse into the future Is to be sighted'in the fate of Mrs. Susan Tingley, ninety-three years old, of Rushville, Ind., wha was badly hurt when an oil can fell from the sky as she was sitting In her yard. The theory is that it fell from an airplane. Now think of the day when the flivver of the air becomes as common as a tlnellaabeth. Fancy going into the backyard only to be smitten on the brow by a couple of pounds of beefsteak and a tricycle which father was bringing home .when his machine tilted a little. Peace? Some might think war preferable.

HUNS ARE POOR FIGHTERS

Pittsburgh Man Writes That Americans Are Superior in Every Way. Pittsburgh, Pa.—More evidence that the German as a fighter is Inferior to the American Is shown in a letter from Capt. J. J. Firestone to friends here: “My theories of the German army have taken a complete change,” he testifies, and I positively, without prejudice, have a great admiration for the superiority of the American army. Our boys have initiative and are a great deal braver. The officers of the enemy have had longer training than ours, but It ends there. The common soldiers or enlisted men are not to be compared with ours.” A shell Is measured by its diameter. A 3-lnch shell fits a gun whose “bore” is 3 inches across; but the shell may be 14 Inches long or more.

CHEERING THE WOUNDED

Miss Winifred Holt, who is working for the blind In New York and Paris, cheering American soldiers who are convalescing at an evacuation hospital of the Twenty-sixth division.

YANKS MAN FRENCH ROADS

American Engineers Are Now Operating Practically All the Military Lines. With the American Army in France. —Chicago railway engineers who took over a section of French military railway near Verdun nearly a year ago, are now operating practically all the French military lines from ‘Verdun, westward to St Menehould. At one point big American locomotives puff their way to within three miles of the German lines every night. Denys L. Hall of No. 5318 Maryland avenue, Chicago,, and Joseph E. Gulo of Pope, Miss., were recently awarded the Croix de Guerre by the French for bravery during the bombardment of a railway station near Verdun. Despite the violence of the shelling they remained at their posts. The “two-bit” line, as the system of military railways is known to the Americans, is now manned entirely by men from the United States. Even the station agents are Americans, though their difficulties naturally are lessened by the fact that the road carries no civilian passengers, pnly troops and military supplies.

PARROT SQUAWKS “OH, BOY"

Clever Magistrate Decides Ownership of Bird Claimed by Two ' Women. New York. —There was a “bird of a case” before Magistrate Mancuso recently. Mrs. Mary Board had summoned Mrs. Julia Lutman to court, claiming the latter had in her possessslon ohe fine big green parrot which she alleged belonged to her. “Suppose both you ladies show just how well this bird does know you,” suggested the magistrate. Whereupon the parrot in a big gilt cage was placed on a table before the judge. “Say ‘Oh, boy!’” directed Mrs. Board. “Oh, boy! Oh, boy!” squawked the witness, parrotlike. “Say ‘papa and mamma.*” ordered Mrs. Lutman. Polly was strangely qqjet “It seems to be Mrs. Board’s bird,” said the magistrate, whereupon he directed Mrs. Board to pay Mrs. Lutman the $3.50 the latter claimed to have paid for the cage, after which she was permitted to depart with her pet.

TRAVELS LONG WAY ALONE

Twelve-Year-Old Boy Goes From Massachusetts to Japan to Join His Father. Seattle, Wash.—Guy de Warzee, twelve years old, is here en route to Japan, where his father is secretary of the' Belgian legation. Guy came here from Groton, Mass., where he was schooled. He has traveled in many parts of the world and spent two years in Persia. He is making the trip to Tokyo alone. He has not been in Belgium since he was a baby. “I wonder if they will let me take my BB gun over to Japan. It’s a real gun, and maybe they won’t allow such war munitions aboard,” said Guy. "While I don’t expect to shoot anybody, yet If I should see a German, well, that gun might go off accidentally.*

GIRLS TAKE CARE OF BABIES

Organize Association to Give Mothers Chance td Help in v War Work. Cleveland, O. —Lydia Woidke, aged fourteen, has organized another war association here. It is called the “Bor-row-a-Baby brigade.** The organizer explains that the brigade will help women with babies who .are willing to do Red Cross work if they can get some one to take care of the children while they are so engaged. Lydia is seeking members among girls between the ages of fourteen and seventeen, and is securing a number of members for her new organization. 1 e . I

German Banned In School.

Eau Claire. Wls. —German has been placed under the ban in the public schools of this city. The action of the school board followed a request from the county defense council. There are few cities in Wisconsin which now have German courses In their public schools. '

TOPROTECTWIDOW

Egyptian Wrote First Will of Which There Is Record — - . - • - Papyrus on Which the Desires of Utah Wore Recorded Has Recently Been Discovered in a Good State of Preservation. Utah, the Egyptian, looked out from beneath his shaggy eyebrows across the Nile, where the eternal Pyramids shimmered In the - heat against the cloudless sky. Gods of Egypt I How dim were those piles of stone I In the bright light of the sun god, Ra, he should have seen those man-made mountains clearly. Shades of his ancestors! His eyes were dimming fast! He was getting old—very old, so he suddenly realized. He looked into the basin o$ the fountain in the courtyard. The image reflected made him conscious, so» .the first time, of his swiftly approaching end. He sank down upon the fountain’s rim and mused upon the shortness of life, its varying fortunes and the prospects as the future life-—ac-cording to the beliefs of himself and his fathers. Ah, well, he was ready to die. He did not fear after death to take the journey with the sun god, Ra, in the Boat of a Million Years to the Fields of Peace. No, by Amen, the god of Thebes! Had not Utah led a good life? Yes, he had always been just, merciful and kind to his servants and his household. They had lacked nothing while he lived, nor had his wife, Sheftu, the daughter of Sat Sepdu. But, after he was gone—ah, Pharaoh, the great one who gives life to his people—would his memory be sufficient to keep her from want or mistreatment? Would she ever be set out of the great stone house as the widows of others had been In the past? A chill, sharper even than the chill of old age, shook him. It was the Chill of fear for his beloved. Then a happy thought warmed his veins again. The people of his household and Ms city ever had listened and obeyed his spoken and written word during his life. His words by voice or writing were considered authority and wholesomely respected. Doubtless, then, would his written words be followed when he was in the Fields of Peace. Strange, neither he nor anyone else had thought of such a thing before. So with reeds, fluid and papyrus he wrote in beautiful picture writing. That happened more than 1,500 years ago. However, the papyrus has kept In a good state of preservation all those centuries and was recently dlscovered by excavators. Translated, it proved to be the will or legacy of Utah, allowing his wife, “Sheftu. daughter of Sat Sepdu of Gesab, four Eastern slaved and “the right to dwell in my house without allowing her to be put forth on the ground by any person.** The “will” is considered by authorities to be the first ever drawn.

Buttons and the War.

Buttons are not generally regarded as one of the great articles of commerce, yet a report? issued by the federal tariff commission presents some astonishing figures regarding the magnitude of the button industry and the capital invested therein. There are more than 500 buttonmanufacturing establishments in thia country, representing a capital of approximately $20,000,000 and an annual payroll of $8,000,000. The annual value of the products is more than $20,000,000. New York has almost half the factories, but the middle West supplies most of the fresh-water pearl. The war has put up the price of buttons, owing to the advance in the cost of metals used in button manufacture, and the increased price of celluloid sheets and all subsidiary raw materials, such as dyes, chalk, acids and canvas. It Is interesting to learn that the war has stimulated the business in this country and has led to the manufacture of glass buttons, which former’ ly were imported—another instance qf beating Germany at its own game.

She Saves Fuel.

A little old woman, wearing a woolen dress, a black silk jacket and a little round hat, entered a surface car at a transfer station yesterday, her arms so filled with a great bundle of rumpled newspapers that she could barely keep her balance. “We’ve got to conserve,” she said cheerfully to another woman who held a seat for her. as she tumbled into a seat, making a dive fit the same time for an evening paper that some one had left lying there. “Is this yours? No? Well, the government says we’ve got to save paper,” she continued, sju. she added this last one to her already big package; "and Til tell you it saves a lot of wood when I make my coffee In the morning."—New York Times.

Model Village In Belgium.

At the initiative of M. F. Malfat, director of the architectural works of the city of Brussels, specialists are studying at present a project looking toward the creation, on the boundary of Great Brussels, of a large village for workmen which will be, as far as the authorities permit, annexed to Brussels dty. It will be a garden city, conceived after the most recent esthetic ideas of cities and especially destined for workingmen and small shopkeepers. Special installations will be provided for wort at homej-Froin Belgian