Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 49, Number 18, Jasper, Dubois County, 11 January 1907 — Page 7

of Fashion

For the Woman Fond of Crochet

COZY WRAP TO PROTECT THE THROAT AND CHEST.

Complete Directions for Making Pretty and Serviceable Addition to Costume The Bet Kinds of Wool to Um.' This is a very dainty wrap, am! on ti prettily cozy for wcmln uu ,,., ;in evening coat to protect the throat and chest when a low bodice Is worn " 's worked In I vor Ins wool, of hu h aliotit six ounces will tie needed A pone hOOk, No. 10. should be used, nr if 000 works tlKhtly then a little lamer hook might be lined. Of course. She' land or Andaluslan wool are also Kiilt.il U but the silk thread hi the (roiiue makes It bright and pretty.

Work a chain of fifteen Inches, turn. jiass the nearest stitch and draw up a loop through each of the next five, draw the wool through all theidx loops at once, and make a chain stitch to hold them In position, . draw up a loop under the chain stitch Just made, one through the back thread of the httt loop of the previous stitch, one through the same stitch as the last loop Is worked Into, and one through ach (if the next two chain stitches (etl loops n hook i, pull all the loops up n same height, draw through ail 0l ;!:; at once, and secure with a rhala-ititc!) as before; repeat from I Bd I chain, turn, three chain, pass one, dwiw up loops through each of the t one through the end stitch of the previous row (tack I only to be taken up through- '! '!.e work), and one through fach of the next two stitches, (ban through all the six loop.; and leCUM With a ehnln-stitch; , draw Bp a loop under the chain stitch Just

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made, one under the buck thread of the lust loop of the previous stitch. MM under he MMEM stitch as the last loop, und one under each of the next two stitches, draw through and Herure with a hain siit h as before; repeat from to end or row, turn again wlt'.i three chain und work back In the same manner, and continue working to and fro until the work Is rather more than one and one half yard long, then having worked up the loops of th last stitch but one or the row, pass over one of the two remaining threads and draw up a hop the other i seven loops on hook I. draw through and complete the stitch as before. This will decrease the row one stitch or pattern Work the end of each suce, ding row In the same manner until only two patt-rns are left. Kasten off. This makes half the scarf. , Recommence at the other side of the foundation chain, and work another piece in precisely the same way. For the border commence with a double crochet two stitch. 's betöre the middle of one of the points, five tnbles with a chain between each Into the middle stitch of the point, pass two, a double fractal in 'he next, pass two. five trebles with a chain between eac h in next, and repeat from all round. Last row of b itder: One i.r.in, past tlM hook through the back thread of the nearest Mit: h of the previous row, draw the wool through that and through the loop already on the taok at the same time (single crochet), one Chain, pass the hook through the back Hu ad of the next stitch, and proceed As before. Continue working one chain, one single croc het into the bar k thread of every stitch all round the edge of the scarf. Higher Heels Than Ever. As to the walking or dr.'ss boots wi'h velvet and cloth tops, they are quite fiuarkable. for the newest of these are about two Inches higher than the average shoes and have scalloped tops patterned after th Napoleonic boots The heels are about a (matter

of an Inch higher and the toes more narrow Some of the heels are military and others are copies of the Louis styles. One of the most striking combination-, among these stunning new dress shoes is the black patent leather

vamps witn me purple velvet uppers, that button with flat, round, white pearl buttons, such as are usually put m gloves. Another pretty pair has black amps, with red velvet uppers aid white pearl buttons. What Smart Women Wear. An exquisite evening dress in empire cut is an oyster shell color soft satin, with square neck bordering and long stole ends of neutral cloth, on whih ate embroideries of m.ithet ofpia.i and black iearl Purple velvet passloa flowers trail over the corsage, and crown the wearers dusky hair The opera cloak worn with this was of pale lilac liberty satin, worked with conventional purple llowers.

Made from Discarded Straw Hat

Serviceable Work Bag Mv Be Fash ioned in Short Time. Scarcely a household but has an led straw hat. Well, this telselj what you want for this la Tie tirst thing to do is to boiling water on the hat. which

row band for a drawstring of ribbon with a bow at one end. This makes a very Id and pretty as wi ll as a useful gift.

IB make It toft ad ptnfc.it N(1W "' 1 M In four even loop! or scallops

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uo.it. ",P n" :"ul "" fl''.!v Int.. Jytlo as It dries U will be stiff y ah pod a, roi mo. KI,htM. lm)nyp J K'ld the straw, and line with silk satin. 8ew on the edge to rorm ' nt the top some wide ri ibot lk satin or cretonne, and rtttaf

cer one edge or sew on

To Walk Gracefully. Kvery woman should aspire to look as well as possible upon all occasions. If she will make up tat mind to sit. stand and walk gracefully, she will go far toward accomplishing this state of continually looking her best. It Is not difficult if ou will only persevere The natural positions of the body ari invariably correct and stiffness U the only thing to be guarded against A woman should nevt r hurry If she wants to look well, but should st.ivn to attain a reposeful manner when walking. She should lift her foot light ly. so that when she takes a step it will swing naturally with the toe downward. A person should be able to balance at any moment upon the single loot thnt pj supposed to hi cartying the walker's weight. If this can be done It Is proof that the body is properly potttd, says Woman's Life. If we accustom ourselves to holding the body gracefully when sitting and standing. It will assume tb..t pOfttkM naturally win I we are walking. Chinchilla Toque B;comirg to All. The chinchilla toque, with Its pinnies of snowy white is a charming thing, and one !at Is becoming to all statt. I' is male rather pointed In front with the inner part of the brim trimmed with White hi .Ton Bat the top Is glorious with white feathers. This hat is the favorite in fas h Unable society, and it is no wonder that Its price runs up to $100 and IIjO. for It

Ms exquisitely made.

Keeis Wrists Warm. The advent of the gantlet muff will bt hailed with delight by the woman who has suffered in silence for two years In her idiort sleeved gown. The gantlet sectres warmth to the wearer without rendering the muff dierropvr

a oar t tlouate.y laruo.

TRADE AT HOME Why Farmer Should Give His Support to the Local Merchant. PRESERVES HIS OWN MARKET Depreciation of Village Property Must Inevitably Mean Depreciation of Agricultural Property and Encouragement of Monopoly. (Copyright, I!". by Alfred C. Clark ) The most serious problem tnat confronts the rural towns and villages of this country is the competition offered loot! enterprises by the catalogue houses of the large cities. It Is a problem for which a solution must bo found If the prosjterlty and sta bllity of the nation is to stand. And the solution of th's great problem lies in the ban-' ; Of the nennt. nf

the towns and villages and the farms, ttftClallf the farms. The people of the rural communities have everything to lose and nothing to gain by sending their money to the catalogue houses, bv nasal m? bv

their local merchants and sending

tneir dollars to the concerns who have absolutely no interest in their communities. These catalogue houses do not pay taxes In your town; the local merchant does. They do not build sidewalks In your town; the local mer

chant does They do not contribute to the building of roads over which the crops of the farms are hauled to market; the local ujerchent does.

In disposing of that he la alwoiu.ei) dependent upon his Ioc.il merchant, and by his putionu.'e at the catalogta houses he ha:; l;,llej competltinn, and milSt now tul'.e V. ll..! Ve; ".. ,-t '. r what he has to gtU, Mr Farmer, aie you helping to kill the goose that is laying your golden egg Are you sending your dollars to the catalogue houses and by so doing killing the kietj industries of your town? Are you putting your merchants out of business, and creating a monopoly that will pay you what It pleases for the products of your farm? If you are doing these things it is time f.r you to stop and consider the future ir.j will have to look but a little way ahead see the result, and It will uot be an attrar'.'.ve picture that greets you. The prosperous community of which you are now a part will tade like the summer lowers be fore the winter winds, and almost as quickly. It is the fact that there is a market within close proximity to your farm that makes your acres valuable The men who maintain this local market for you are the men who cause the railroad trains to stop at your town. Take them away and soon the town will be wiped off the map. The churches will close for lack of support. The schools will cease to be a pride, and your sons and daughters will lack the opportunity that is theirs by right of birth, and your acres, that are now valuable because they He in close proximity to a market, will show a depredation that will astonish you. Your interests are Identical with those of the merchants of your town Hy sending your dollars to the city you may cause the merchants to close their establishments, but when they are forced to this they can pack their

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Give your town a chance by patroniilng your local merchants and you may confidently expect its grewth in business and population and a raise m real estate valuation. Send your money to the catalogue houses and you may

iook Tor me reverse, i ne picture tells the story of the possibilities

They do uot In '; to build school houses for your children; the local merchant does. They do not asäist in the Mppoit of your churches; the local merchant does. IJut there arc some things the catalogue houses do for you and the first and greatest of these is to assist materially In bankrupting your community. The dollars they take away never come back to you. They will never help to make a city of your village. They will never Increase the alue of your real-estate holdings by making local improvements. lxi us look nt the subject from the standpoint of the fanner, for It is the farmer who Is the greatest patron of the catalogue houses. The town o. village one. two or three miles from his home is his market for the butter and tggt and other produce of his farm. The half dozen or more merchants of the town, each anxious to obtain his full share of the business of the community, maintain a competition that affords to the farmer at all times top prices for the products of his farm. It is these half dozen merchant that make farm profits possible; the profits are In no way due to the catalogue houses of the cities Hut the farmer persists in sending his dollars to the city. He wants a buggy, or a set of harness, or a pair of stockings, or any of the necessities or luxuries of life, and to get them he takes oat his mail order catalogue and looks at the finely printed cuts, reads the well written description, and. pass

ing the local merchant by, tne Boer chant who has purchased his produce at the htti market prices, the merchant who has bellied to build the

community, he sends his dollars to the catalogue house In the city and takes what they choose to send him.

What is the result? One after another the doors of the

local stores are closed, and where at

one time there were hall' a dozen me:

rhnnts. each bidding for his shan Of patronage by offering fair prices for that which the farmer had to sell, there Is now but one meichr.nt who has a monopoly, not only of the sell Ing. but of the buying as well, and he pays etktl he pleases for the farmers

tfodui e.

The farmer can continue to send his

money to the catalogue house In the

Ity for his supplies, but he cannot

send his prod-ice tu h same piawe.

stock of goods and go elsewhere, but

you cannot j ack up your farm and

move It; jour acres must He in the bed you have builded for them Whether

it be fair or foul, and It la "up to you.

Mr. Farmer, to spend your money at

home and In this way vom can solve

the greatest problem that now con fronts this country. Will you do It? YANKEE IN DIAMOND PIELD3.

Commissions to Study a Country

Which Produces Such Men. Mr. Alfred Mosely is an Englishman who admires American ways so much

that he semis commissions here to

study us. Mr. Mosely does not admire us without a reason. It Is not a very specific reason. Its name is Mr. Gardner F. Williams, and It Is by way of being an American mining engineer. Mr. Williams directs the diamond output of the world. Mr. Mosely made his fortune In South Africa. He watched Ctflt Rhodat1 dr. am of t mpfre develop nnd knew the men who made it real. The one who took his Imagination was Gardner Williams. Ibre was a man who had left Michigan nt the age of If to go with a pioneering father to California In the flush days of the early mining camps, had had a taste of California

mining, had gone when still a young man to explore In South Africa ami had become a general manager of the gnat monopoly of the diamond mines. A fighter of financial battles and a manager of men. a writer, a scientist and one of the world's greatest engineers, he so stamped his personality on the paoplt among whom he lived that he was f t d and cheered by all South Africa when he retired last spring and came lack to the I'nlted States to build a home for his leisure years In the land Of his birth. world's Work.

Keep Your Money at Home. Don send money to mall order huUtOl to deposit Your home bank is the only safe place to keep it and will pay you as good literati as can bt atC and th n vou run no risk as in siHh cases as -he "Cob Iluyer's I'nion" failure Tilt home bak will graal you Fa von and u-aJi rr!r houses fievei do .

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SNAP, SHOTT AND SHUTTER By Wilfrid Klickmann.

pZepjrrlght. 1C, by Jovh H. Bowles.)

Snap, Erott g: SI: rs of ismrra. were advertising for a gen-

faces of thf staff. I felt ready to forfeit a week's salary if only one of the

tins to fill the position of chief op- plate showed signs of developing into valor There was nothing suspicious something. si out the adv.-i -is-, mem. and its The tension was not relieved when

stml-htforward. almoM pleading tone I fimnd a note a month old, left by my

o.ssessed me

predecessor in office, intlniatln his

ftequlred A capable photographic Intention of committing suicide. The operator to undertake sole charge of ' cheery manager shook my hand each

dark room and developing branch of

our business Liberal salary. Apply to Snap, Short ii Shutter, etc. The "liberal salary" seemed to

promise well. As regarded my own

day, surreptitiously feeling my pulst the while. The hope that springs eternally In the human bftMt received a slight encouragement a few days later. SIowlv devtdoufnK before m

suitability for the BOtt I had no mis-! tyto, and distinctly visible was a seen

glvings. Fhotograi l. held no unsolved tf a busy (piay a steamer, gangways, mysteries for me. while In algebraic j a"d people hurrying on board. It was formulae connected with diaphragms, j beautiful little negative, and while I angles and foci of lenses 1 was quite ', 11 aside to soak I acknowledged at home. Further. Messrs. Snap. Shott I humbly to myself a small thing may & Shutter were an eminent firm, and Perchance preserve the balance of an their particular make of apparatus intellect. was probably the most terrible with i Other pictures followed, all good In which the amateur photographic fiend their way. My eicitement knew no could arm himself. bounds, for the relief was great. InIt was called a hand camera." im- tead of filling up one of Messrs. plying that it could ha carried in the ' Snap. Shott & Shutter's usual forms, hand, and to distinguish it from that "Wt regret to inform you that there variety which entails the attendance j havp been failures in the parcel of of a strong orter for locomotion. Plates forwarded to us for developYou surely know them? BtttTt," I wrote a special note congrntThousauds of persons, who are ab- he photographer, solutely Ignorant of the chemical Two days afterwards the prints were transformation recjuired to produce a returned with a letter worded In photograph, are now able, through the I stronger terms than the circumstances instrumentality of Snap. Shott & Shut- eemed to warrant. It was from an ter. to write themselves amateur pho- I irtP g'-ntleman to whom I had in togtaphers." error sent the wrong proofs. He deThe firm do the developing nnd ' nianded his proper negatives (what print as many copies as are ordered eTer ,h' lhy were Wktrenj) bv the photographers The latter anfl Insisted that I had sent him the thn h .v. th -iii-, ,.f hthiti. to i other pictures to annoy him. and with

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their friends (with an assumed care

lessness i the choicest of their efforts. "These are a few little things I snapiMd the other day." one will remark, with a modest, deprecating air.

'That's Mr. lit own, the merchant

malice aforethought. It was merely

a slip on my part, and one quite excusable when my excitable feedings were taken into acount. Hut Fate was evidently against me. A gentleman named Robinson had

prince arguing with a man. nnd here oot,ned an excellent snapshot of a

Miss Ortttt. the poetess, eating a band I I'orKer a co"nl ra,r- nd anWich. I'm told It's quite uniqu- lu iti j other amateur photographer of the

way; my means rave auout It. I dropped Messt.-- Snap. Shott & Shutter a line, and begged to be fa

vored with the name and address of the operator lately holding the post Hy return the following reached me:

"Dear Sir In answer to your cour- I

teous note, we regret to inform you that the gentleman you alluded to is

j dead. Yours truly.

"Snap. Shott & Shutter " "P. S We trust to receive shortly your application for the josition." It war, disconcerting to be unable to ascertain how h had liked the work. I tried again, and asked for the address of his predecessor In office. To my surprise I learned that this gentleman was at present in charge, of his medical attendant at a private asylum. A jostscript informed me that S.. S & S. would await my application before coming to a decision. As the firm were meeting me more than half way 1 did not wish to ap pear too exacting, and acco-dlngly accepted the post. Mj arrival created somewhat of a

sensation. The irierest I excited was developed. Will it be believed, a simldistinctly flattering to a modest man. i lar mistake occurred again, and the Some of the clerks seemed to regard Picture of the quadruped with the rt me in a strange manner, and I could tundlfy of a balloon came into the poshave vowed there was a look almost "lesion of Mr Robinson, the well-

akin to pity in the eyes of the lady known vegetarian advocate? The lat-

I Started at My Haggard Look. samp name had also sent plates to be

typist. 1 began with a hatch of a dozen plates, which the sender, by his letter, lo lared to be of exceptional Interest. The first six plates were negatives, but not In the generally accepted sense cf the word. Fy no stretch of imagination could the eye of faith detect the slightest trace of any picture, nnd

mopping my brow I wondered whether

ter. when pointing out my mistake.

took the opportunity of enclosing a couple of tracts on the vlclousness of carnivorous diet versus the spirituality of bean f"asts. The manager must have noticed my altered appearance, for he would look the other way if I approached him. He assured me I need not be alarmed at the whiteness of my hair, it was

the photographer had dispatched me a I merely the effect of the dark-room. He

added that It would go off after n time. It did In fact, it dropped off. There is no need to linger over the r. ii alnlng brief period durlnp which I stayed lh the employ of Messrs. Snap, Shott & Shutter. In three months the tension had undermined my constitution. I am now taking the rest cure at a

oox of nnexpoaod plates. Number seven was like Its predecessors, and so was the next and the next. The mistake was obvious. The man had sent me a dozen new plates in error. A few minutes would suffice to finish off the remainder. A shnck awaited me with the last of all. Gazing darkly Into the develop

ing dish, signs of great distress were seaside sanitarium and hope inside of .uii kry manifest in the film. I dashed a year or two to be able to take anIt Into clean water. Proceeding cau- other position not with Messrs. tlously with a weak solution a faint i Snap. Shott & Shutter, image of a church became apparent,

considerably obscured by tho masts of ships. Heads of inspiration kept my forehead cool as further Incongruities became evident. A phantom automobile and an indescribable Jumble of the art nimeutn and Brooklyn bridge

darkened the whd- It w... lud I , ft .pe'k The Xj

an interesting sei oi pictures, marreu

Private Concern to Make Stamps. After February 1 next the American i Bank Note company will manufacture Fnlted States postage stamps. Under i a contract Just made public the con

cern must deliver 27,O00,non stamps

by the fact that all had been taken on one and the same negative. The operator had diligently "pulled the trigger" a dozen times, but had not thought it necessary to change the plate. It seemed unfortunate that I should have begun on so many failures, but I looked for better luck on the mor

row. Alas: it was a ioriorn nope, and

the 100004 dajf lost d in gloom.

During the third and fourth day I

tackled tlte task, grimly determined

to bear up ami earn my " liberal sal

ty." The Instructions from tho re

spcrtive senders of the plates I read

with avidity. K'ich fresh letter was like the arrival in the prison cell of a warder welcome, even If accompanied by a taek. Saturday dav. atd and catching sight pf my face In the mirror while shaving I etarted at my haggard look. How I had aged' An Indomitable Mlrlt, however, urged me to go to the studio," end I Ignored the anxious

can Bank Note company made the first postage stamps for the government and held the contract up to thirteen years ago. when the government manufactured the Columbian Issue and down to this day the bureau of printing and engraving has turned out all stamps The change was made because a private ci nccrn can do it cheaper. Peter the Great Set Fashion. Some Investigator of curious subjects has discovered that the Inventor of traveling incognito wasJPeter th Oreat ol Russia. The next after th famous Russian sovereign to adopt the practice was Joseph II. nf Austria, who. In 177f, made a little stay In Paris under the title of Count von Falkenstein. Charles X. passed as tho Comtc de Maries. The ex-Empreso Kucenle, In her splendor, frequently took little trips as the Comtess dej Plerrefetids King Ieopold does so still as Comte de Ravenstein.