Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 49, Number 29, Jasper, Dubois County, 29 March 1907 — Page 7

SEE WHAT YOU BUY

FOR EARLY SPRING SMART DESIGNS IN THE SEPA RATE SHIRT WAISTS.

Showings Are Larger and More Varied Than Have Appeared for Several Seasons Girdles Brought Into Prominence. The M arate waist, ever since the !i .if i s ii :-".ii. has -i a subject of . a Mtlunal Itrerost, and all efforts to -upplant It have proved ineffectual. It i too convenient; in fart. COtDbines too many alluring; characteristics in its make-up to be easily set aside, and. while it may never again enjoy the same prestige that first marked its appearance. It Is doubtful .' we aie ever ag ain left without ose modification of the shirt waist. While the entire costume is now considered more dressy, the spring -vinK of separate blouses is utile t ably larger and more varied than for several seasons. For early pring days smart dfcaigM are developed in flannel, always of the unshrinkable qualitv. These are trimmed either with bias or plain ban d of .elf material, witn fancy braids, rufflings and emplecements. or with tucks and shirrs, fancy buttons, stia; s and various more or lens odd & I lees, fashioned out of contrasting cloths or silks. The same careful attention to detail, the same perfect lit. and correct lines required in the most preteatloas ere itfcM are exacted of the separate

I abrupt point, to which We have hell tor long a time !ut which is uot to , be found in tin newest j, . One very moi.'sh design notice! ' amng the,. Hanne! waists was of viyella laided In dull lilue and green , liei k d off with hair lines of lighter blue and green. The material faj I gathered to a point -d yoke back and 1 front, and drawn taut down into a ! crushed belt of satin of the exact shade of green shown in the plaid. Down the front Is a double box plait, cut on the cross of the goods, on l which are two tiny folds of satin. i stüdwd thtough the center. The ' yoke in outlined with folds, the fnasta cut in rounded pom's overlapping . each o'her and iscoratfl 1 with three , tiny buttons. At the base of the collar is a tiny butterfly bow of satin. The sleeves show rather more fulnes ; than those of tin- past : -on. thi at bQtl tp and bOttMB, and have some hat the straight up-and-down effect ascribed 10 the originally designed wai ts, and also they have the typical shirt-waist cuffs. Tiny pockets in ill MttOBCt of odd I designs are very much in evidence, although they are In reality but a trav esty on the name, nev-r by any chance beiiiK o'her than mere pat N i nd therefore entirely ornamental. Another special feature in tailored : wain is the frilled bo-om plait, a style universally 1 - i .-.:ia:t A pretiy design of this order Is deI veloped in pale blue flannel set in broad side plaits each edged w.h t quilling of satin ribbon of the -hade; the be.- m lilt, which is all i given two narrow side plait, and . which conceals the fastening. Is like

00 NOT TAKE THE CATALOGUE 6TATEMENT FOR IT. CASE OF A MAIL-ORDER BUGGY The Purchaser Was Ashamed to Us It and Sold it to His Hired Mar It Pays to Buy at Horns.

(Copyright, fcy Alfred O. Clark ) The Kast Knd of lndoo is an ex ample of what the city does fur humanity In creating poverty, misery, disease, drunkenness and crime Jefferson was right when he said: "Great cities are great sores upon the body politic." Is It any wonder that lovers of their kind are horror stricken at the grinding of these gigantic mills whose grist ts the bodies and souls of men T Hut there is another movement connected with this current Atting cityward which, like it. is full of grave menace to the welfare of humanity. This is the dry rot now invading thousands of villages and towns. It is not lack of capital or business energy la the towns, or discrimination in freights or exhaustion of the soil in the surrounding country that is bring bsf about this change, but a new and dangerous form of competition, and the caprices of those who buy. Go into these towns and you will fli, 1 them at a standstill or going backward. Inquire of their busineas men or commercial travelers and you will

know that be could have bought as cheaply and selected much more satisfsctorily at home. On a rural route with which I sm familiar and over which most of the incoming letters are (mm mail order houses and the outgoing ones carry back money or

dert, lives a friend of mine who ; bought a waUh from the catalogue at

what he considered a rare bargain. The tu h came, to be sure, but it did not go. that is at the right speed, and. although money enough was spent on It to bring the price up to I k d figure. It was no better as s ' than that famous wat a Of ("apt. Cuttles. Another friend bought a buggy at $34 and was elated over his purchase until it came and he saw that the top was a very ordinary article of oil cloth. Instead of leather, and be was so ashamed of it that he sold it at a loss to bis hired man and bought a better one in a neighboring town. A lady and her two daughters bought shoes from the catalogue and when aaked why they had trouble wrh their feet said it was because of ill-fitting shoes. Hut such instances of the bad effects of buying sight unseen" are daily occurring all over the country It is only natural and inevitable that such things scould happen. Iet us se what will be the effect of this formidable diversion of trade, if carried to its logical conclusion. Nearly all the business houses of the smaller towns will become bankrupt, the value of town property will decline, churches and schools will receive a feeble support and the towns, instead of being centers of business and social activity, will almost cease to exist. The country in general will

become like many portions of the

learn that business is not as good as

formerly and that the prospect is for I sou'h where the large plantations, by

a continued shrinkage in trade. An observant commercial traveler said to the writer: "I believe the day of the village and town is over. The big fish are everywhere eating up the little fish. A few small lines of business that cannot be done by mail, such as

getting their supplies in the cities, have kept the neighboring towns

down to the cross-roads type dreary

unpalnted little places of a half d' zen

ramshackle houses. The evil effects

of this loss of trade and destruction of the value of town property will re-

lieTimc kaik laiJ nu man lie by Or wind and rain and icy dull.

And d on3 a rick embroidery Of 5inili&k! poured on lake and kilL No Leas!" or Lird in eardi or ky, Who je T3iec döttl noi will, ladiiess flinU for Time kalk laid Iiis man Of vnni and ram and icy chill.

iver and founlatn. Lrook and rill. Be5vm&led o'er Willi livery ay

silver droplet 5, Wind ikeir way. All in llieir nrs apparel vie. For Tunc kaik laid Ins man Charles of Orleans

HOME OF THE EASTER LILY

Th gti Ik It a

too, is an rierallv n:

important far-

uff

frill with

in the liack and five :n lion . I it is brought into a buckle or of thai d pth. or else i, in by two bones set about an inch . This is an innovation from t'.ie

those, on th is of Wat

.-.'vt-s are snort i , hich r ach only to I given three plaits I erf :iY:on similar to I ST. Th g:ni

TO MAKE HER TALLER. The K nd of Clothes a Little Woman Ojght to Wear.

BOX FOR PRESERVING STRING.

Pretty Ornamental Tritt Bcuaoir Table.

for the

Oir strinn

illustration .-hows

!ox ornan.

Just back from Paris the tiny mite of woman as airinit her views on

clother bmidered silk or l:nen.

-The American dressmaker takes round cardboard or thin w, too little account of height but lays may be uei. with a hole all the stress on weight." she sail, 'he center of the lid. "Her clients are apt to be d:ided The si r. or whatever is into two classes stout and slender. , covering the sides sh mid Th. slender little woman of five feet , broklered with the little des gets about the same treamen a' her in No. 4 and parts of No. 3;

worked with ( hina ri: :

a pgettl with em n ordinary

hanös as the slender young Amazon of five feet s'ven or eight. ma line bow at the back of the neck Is a wonderful Improver to little persons it adds height marvelous!. "Then there is the shoulder Feel of my shoulder seam. It corresponds exactly with my shoulder line, but let it be a frac'ion of an inch to long and I am no longer jetite, but a dwarf. i'.avy. coarse materials are "tily

u.-d for b emgn shown :h a-e an 1 tiny

sequins Th lUli ie then fixed round the sides of Ins with seecst'.ne. turn in? the edgrs over to the laai ie an 1

r ire

the tall.

Fin

JrW - J - 5b1

Flower Wa3 Introduced Into the Islands of Bermuda by an American.

smooth stirfac

for

And. th-i

' hip. not below it otherwise, the tt becomes a mere flounce instead thing of line?. Between the waist-

per -on is es the upM. If th-

iine and the hips the ski perfectly fitted "The hat for a -ma' more becoming if it mat' inmost part of the cost

lice Is a tint, the hat should le of the same ompb v.on. In the ca.-e of a ve;y small woman, waist and kirt of ilifferent tones or colors are not tj be thought of. Kven the gloves dc 'heir part in making or manlng the picture. White ones with dark gowns lwarf the heicht. and so. too. do capes and other fussy shoulder arrgngSssSiaU. Trimme. I iVirts and I led effets are also ruled out." Pretty Gowni Seen in Shops. A charminc white frock is made of MMMHOM de sole, flowered with tiny rOMMI) and trimmed with maltese lace and colored hmbleries and inser-lon-Another, for evening wear, of the same diaphar.ou- materia1, has little clusters of pink roses worked on It. and a berthe of green and sold m br ddery. while green and white satin ribbons finish the sleeves. A very beautiful evening mantle Is Of pah biscuit cloth, with a hood of ab-nunnes lace dyed to match the color; a ruche of satin of the same -h.i b- with h;i:id.i:ii' :-i "rti.innr.-s and tassels cmlelllsh the neck, and there Is killed lace in the -!... , ) i niching of pale green satin inside -.he hem.

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The mail-order habit will cut the limb of local prosperity from ths tres of national life and drop you and your community into the bottomless pit of bus ness stagnation. Are you dding the saw that means certain disaster to you and your community? barbering. Warktmi'fcln: or the se-e- I set Uon the value of farm property

Length of Skirts. The walking skirt must escape the pavement, and if It does so by several Inches It is that much smarter, one's ace and figure penult Uag. The time ha sone by, bammmt, when the slen der fiit'ire. best suited fay the verv

short skirt, is possessed by the yottnr k;nd

oniy. ami vice versa Indeed. looking Sbout In society, one finds almost as manv very plump young girls as stout middle-ased women, while the older women sometimes possess not only the - -n.il ines IHM the UktstMM that eo ften eharacteriuvs the immature

underneath as hey can thm be covered with the lining, which also must be fixed in by seccotlne. Tho pray No. .t i w rked on a circle for the top of :-d with a now of sequins or knot stitches round; the edKe must be nipped .t:,d fixed down over the ides. straining ÜM top quite smoothly. The piece that covers the skies of Hd Is embroidered with the border I the upjer edce m ist be very' evenly turned m before the strip Is fixed, hut the lower edc caSi lie snlpiM'd and turned under tln.n the lid must !k neatly liied. Th- llni.tg may be firm .!ore l ps per such as is used by booki in le.s. or silli or sateen may faj used It must be cnt exact to size ind neitly fixeil In by the eecotine. of which as little as possible should Ik used.

Fashion w nU. Fur-trimmed hats are popular. 5ray 's to be even more favored than last year. Quantities of d., lace are used: rat tail fringe is the name of on-

a favored

Spkler well stltchery is

tiimmini! Many are the smart plaided walking skirts. Chinese em Vol derlei end buttons are made use of.

Orchids are the new floral crarc of

by cutting off the hone market. They

will add to the taxes un lands by reducing taxable values in the towns. Surely It is not to the interest of anybody, except the bloated corporations carry ins on the mil order business, to see the towns and villages fall into

lore to buy of some , decay. A towa is not nly "J ies. if one felt that ; .alue to the lands Surrounding It. bill

Ufl well Stocke i business houses are s convenience and a benefit to the b'tyer. Even if money could. In the : nc run. r. 1 r.U-r::iz everything from the city, the lncon-enlence and uncertainty of It would alwajs mike such shopping unsatisfactory. Ordering from a catakiprue is a leap In the dark. WWtpf in the case of a few articles whose enjor. shape and quality are always the same. To the man who can soberly look on both sides of the question and who can put himself in the place of "the other fellow" the qury will come: Is It best from mere whim, or even for a certainty of saving from one to half a dozen dollars in a year to turn my back on the old. convenient ways of doing business, and to do my part toward ruining the business of my old acquaintances and friend, and of destroying the valii" Of pr .perty in the town where my friends Hf! V n Mli.I.f.R. D dn't Suit Him. People who patronize the cars running out to Forest Hills sre familiar with Conduct. -r row ley. the raaa vvbn wears sx service stripes on his

sleev. says a writer in the Host, n

lng of soft drinks aad ice cream may survive, but such lines of trade cannot sustain a decent town." The cause of this widespread loss of business is :he aggressive and destructive competition of the catalogue houses in the big cities. It has been possible

for 40 vears or m

houses in the cit

the merchants of h: town were exacting too much profit, but this effort of the mail order houses to cut the retailer altogether Is a new thing, the growth of the past few y.-ars. Starting with a few lines of trade, this form of competition has come to cover almost everything that can be sold in a country town and it is even asserted that a savings bank department Is to be added by one of the catalogue houses. The claim that the mall order houses of Chicago are doing an annua! business of over $2oo.tXO.OoO may seem large, but one house alone has sold goods to the amount of tHJttv KW in the past six nunths and is now incubating a new plan to increase its enormous business by selling shares of stock to thousands of people in the hope of miking them regular customers. The skillfully worded advertisement and the big catalogue, with its pictures of articles in a hundred lines of trade, are vry alluring to biyers. most of whom are not familiar with prices and qualities. Some of the articles below the usual prices ire of

an inferior quality. whi the average

sn ' umie. velot ed feminine figure. 1 the fash: .nable aoaiaa.

price Is usually fully up to what would j Herald

he paid to the home dealer. As was i 0n WtegB f election day In shown last winter in a speech in con- SovembT one of h;s passengers was gress. articles for the mail order trade gn old man wh. had ie-en Imhibin? are often misbranded at the r.-quest , nKh to maKP him go to sleep in the of the mail order people with dellb- crnrr of thp rar erste intent to deceive. One of the Ju8t fo,, tt rr arhed Imd'er street Instances given by this congressman the .tor snnounced with his was of some thousands of flntt-r rings ,fmJ nch ro of r -cir r-cnlt and st.v.ipcl fourteen carats" when they were in reality only 'en. ..yrr a ar, Ub John n MrtJlv The buyer who orders from his shouted the sleepy one. waking up catalogue, or from an advertisement, suddenly.

does not see the articles till tftey come and Is often disappointed in the quality of the most of them, bat there is no redreas as there would be If he bought at borne. He does not like to own that he Is disappointed, so he makes the best of It and tries to per suade himself that h has saved money. In miny instances he is not rail enough Informed la values to

New Metric Chart.

A new me'-ir . hart representing

geographically measures of the international metric system of weights and

measure has Keen prepared by the

bureau of standards tt the department

of commerce and labor, and will be

furnished free to any school Uschlag

the svstem.

There is only one monument in the whole British colony of the Bermudas and it la erected to the memory of sn American. This fact ma seem a hit strange until one has heard the story, which is really a story of the Bermuda lily, and of the man who made it possible. Many years ago during President Hayes' administration, in fact Gen. Kussel Hastings, who had made for himself a brilliant record during the civil war. was married in the White House at Washington. He and his bride went to Bermuda on their wed ding trip, and v.t-re so chartue with the Iteaut) of the place that th y resolved then and there to return, and. if possible, to make It their permanent at. .;. The chmate. t.. appealed to them. (The general had been seriousl wounded in the war, aad was far from well.) A little later the two came attain Not as tourists this time, but as homceefcera In those days the now-existing law that none but Knglish cltiz ns

can own laud in F'ici sb colonies was n. ;.!..: T- S" : , j lia-'.iis had

no difficulty in acquiring a large

tat- He chose a picturesque site in the

little city of Hamilton, surrounding a land locked bay. Here he built his home. "Sonci." which stands today

am ;ip tropical trees ana luxuriant

lowers.

Not only did General Hastings st

MM become deeply interested in the

place, and in the possibilities for Its

d veVpment. but he was genuinely d;-- --! at th" poe ty of the island ers. says a writer in the Detroit Free

Press Setting about to improve matters, he studied the climatic conditions esperini"nted again and again, and at length his efforts were crowned with success it was found that our presen' -day Krster Illy, originally a native of Japan, would attain in Herrn da to a perfection of loveliness hitherto unkn iw.v The islanders were soon pressed into service, snd since ghoal 176 tbe culture of lilies has faeet net only their chief pride, but th ir chief means of livelihood as well Imagine a gTOVp of Islands, far

them about 15 miles lone and not wider, st most, than a mile and a half set benea'h the bluest of blue skies, gad - ::.;ng to rest on water whose transpai ury and brilliancy of color are uneo,uaied anywhere. This la Bermuda, the home of the Kast.-r lily, s e e e a As the incoming boat skirts the shore, the Illy fields look from a distance like white summer clouds ! ped down from the sky upon the u -en i.-lands. Lily fragrance rills the air and is blown by the wind far out over the water. Coming nearer you see the fields more clearly rows upon rows of blossoms, tall, stately and snowy win e B is very bffiltlfli j It was not until the early V''s that the Bermuda lily became well know in the United States. It Is said that a Philadelphia woman, returning from the Islands, brought home a plant to bloom. This came to the attention of w K. Harris, an enterprising florist of the Quaker city, who purchased a lot of the bulbs, from which he succeeded In raising hundreds of plants, introducing them under the name Liltum Harri sli. Thus the Easter Illy industry spread to America, and to other countries as well. But nowhere do the flowers grow so perfect and beautiful as under the quickening warmth of the tropical sun of Bermuda. Ordinarily only bulbs are exported, but at the rush season whole boat loads of rut buds and f thickly budded plants are packed and shipped away, carrying the sweet message of the Eastertide into countless homes and churches. General Hastings is dead In spite of his long residence in Bermuda, he remained a devotedly l.oal American en and from time to time concerned himself '.vith pu'olic affairs, holding various positions of responsibility and honor. The Islanders remember him as their friend and leaefactor, and that they and those that come sfter them may not fag unmindful of the debt of gratitude they owe. a beautiful monument has fasjeaj recently erected in Hamilton in his memory.

e .

-the largest of :

An Easter Lay. Beheld' Wl.t llgtn in yonder sky? The Hng'ds e ho In r-ply: it is um Beetee pawn. At Carola w-t rtn thmuch the air. ind fasWers -list.! tl.Hr perfume rare. Tl.ts fAeesRectsoa m"rn '

1 1

lllf-at 3ui.ur -'t l'or sns-r And Chftri aro And vir

1 know sty fate Is sur.'ijr aeall. Kot ,...k hü- p.ss.ruj sear pv.n r Itpa and said to me. "Veal ha mi breakfast, J-.ir.'

Chmeae Idea of Creation. By th" Chinese It is believed that the world was .med of twu parts of s great afg 11 Mi the roll mart came forth, then he waved sfl Land and the upper ha'f of th shell went upwsrd stid ' concave heav ens; the lower half reversed miKinS the cone ear'h. and the VMM s bumen Inlaws the aeaa.