Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 58, Number 46, Jasper, Dubois County, 4 August 1916 — Page 3

HINTS FROM PARIS

A Worth model, for afternoon wear at the seaside, is made of flesh pink tussah, with very beautiful embroideries in washing silks appearing on the hem of the skirt and on the revers and collar of the short coatee, writes a Paris correspondent. These embroideries are done In pastel tinted silks, pale blues, pinks, yellows and clever touches of dead whitel The coatee Is fastened with small ivory balls if opened over a blouse made of cobweb muslin and real Valenciennes lace. According to Worth, and Doucet also, the pannier craze has died out. Premet is, as usual, making a specialty of dressy gowns intended for afternoon wear. This dressmaker Is very fond of combining taffeta, chiffon and very fine metallic embroideries. The skirts chez Premet are fuller and rather shorter than those shown by Worth or Doucet, and I notice that Premet 13 remaining faithful to the full, gathered flounce which appeared on so many evening gowns at the beginning of the summer season. A pretty Premet model was composed of cornflower-blue taffeta, blue chiffon and very fine metallic embroideries, the latter showing delicate Iridescent tints in a strong light. The skirt was arranged In a series of gathered flounces of graduated widths, but there was a plain panel in front. Then there was a quaint little fichu bodice which crossed at the waist, and which was almost covered with fine embroidery. There was a narrow celnture which cut the waist rather high up, and then a shaped flounce formed Charming Cape-Coatee and Corselet Skirt of Rose Pink Tussore. a sort of pannier-basque which just reached the hip line. The sleeves were tight and exaggeratedly short, almost like the sleeves of a dinner dress ; very long black kid gloves were to be worn with the dress. It is said that long, black kid gloves, like those worn by Yvette Guilbert when sne made her debut, are again to be fashionable for day as well as evening wear. This is good news, for these long, black gloves are as becoming as they are economical, and we all have to consider ways and means in these terrible days. USEFUL RACK FOR LETTERS With Contrivance Like This There Is Little Danger of Any of the Missives Being Lost. Letter racks ave most useful, for as soon as the letters arrive they can be placed in It, thus there is no fear of them getting astray, for each member of the house will know where the letters may be found at all times of the day. The racks are easily made at home. Take the lid of a wooden box or a flat Letter Rack. piece of wood and sandpaper It well; the size should be about IS inches by 14 Inches. An ordinary slate may also be used, providing it has a narrow wooden frame all around it. Cover the board with felt or baizered, blue or green would do well ; take a piece just a little longer than the wood and secure it to the back of the board with drawing pins or small tacks. Then purchase soma braid- -the color should match the baize or felt and

arrange this lattice fashion on the board as in the sketch. Secure the braid to the edge of the board by means of drawing pins or tacks. Secure a ring to the back of the board to hang it up with. The letters are simply put under the braid and the baize keeps them in place. It Is better to have the wood or slat covered for this reason alone the felt keeps the letters from slipping down. The rack will be found most useful and can in most cases be made without cost, for most of the materials required will be found about the house.

HATS OF PINK AND BLUE Touch of Purple Properly Applied Gives Just the Right Appearance to the Millinery. Pale pink Is everywhere in millinery as In frocks, and there are pale pink hats in every Imaginable material from felt to mallnes. Pale pink in combination with dark blue velvet, is popular. Wide brimmed hats of flesh pink batiste are among the pink millinery usually trimmed in big soft bows of ribbon or nosegays or wreaths of tiny flowers. A crown of black or dark blue velvet or dark blue silk, a very wide brim of pale pink and a band of pink covering two-thirds of the crown side, a stiflly charming little bunch of small flowers in pink and purple and citron posed primly on the front of the crown and extending a little way above it there is a hat indubitably modish and extremely pretty too, which is more than one can say for all things modish. A touch of blue on a pink hat is chic, but the blue is the French blue of Louis XV and Louis XVI, and the combination is never the wishy washy pink and blue of the limp blonde's ideal. Take a hat of fully plaited pink malines with an inch or two of it extending beyond the wide brim aud falling to soften the frame of the face. Run a blue ribbon around the crown, through four heavy rings of violet beads, and let a fine plaiting of the malines soar high above the crown from under this ribbon, and the result Is a pink and blue hat unquestionably sophisticated. CHILD'S "BANK" EASILY MADE Article of This Description Will Inculcate Habits of Thrift in the Little Folks. There was never a time when it was so important that the little folks should save as many of their pennies as possible, and we give a sketch of a "bank" for this purpose that they can quite well make for themselves from an old cigar box. Some quiet fun and amusement will also be derived in preparing the bank and in decorating it after it has been completed. First of all cut a slit in the lid of the box for the coins to pass through. Not too large, or else you will be able to get the pennies out again, and then they will soon be spent. Next nail the lid securely down, and then cut out pieces of white paper to fit the sides and top of the box, and paste them in their places. AVhen the paste is quite dry you can draw animals or butterflies or anything else you fancy, and then color them with paints or chalks. Another good way of decorating a "bank" of this kind is to save all the old postage stamps, soak off the paper "Bank" for the Little Folks. and then gum them all over the box until it is entirely covered; or, again, a very pretty box can be prepared with cigar bauds used in the same manner. FROM RIBBONS AND BEADS Dainty Necklets 1 t May Be Made at Home Just the Thing for Simple Blouse. Dainty necklets fashioned from ribbons and beads can I' made at homo easily. For the simple blouse or frock of today they are exactly the thing. Many women have odd lengths of narrow ribbon laid by, remnants secured at the last sales. Anything in ribbons, velvet or moire from one to three yards will come In useful. Pearl drops can be bought for five or ten cents. The expense of the necklace may be obtained by the use of imperfect trinkets, such as a pair of earrings or an old cameo. A simple form of necklet Is a green velvet one with amber drop. It is merely a length of half-inch-wide velvet ribbon, 40 inches long, turned back at each end to form a point. To each of these points is fastened a long, narrow yellow drop, quaint and graceful. The ribbon is Hung around the neck of the wearer and knotted loosely in front White Flanned Suits for Women. "Our brothers are so smart in their white flannels, why can't we be?" young girls asked, they say. So now they are being shown in New York for $25. There's something boyish about the pocketed coats and skirts, something that suggests the comfortable correctness of the Englishman's out-of-doors clothes.

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Tons of Paper Left in New York Subway Daily NEW YORK. Until, recently the destination of the newspapers left in the subway and elevated trains was supposed variously to have been "Davy Jones' locker" or the place where bad little boys go to. But an announcement made by T. p. Shonts, president of the

Interborough Rapid Transit company, knocks :.U those theories In the head. To show that efficiency is not confined to Germany, Mr. Shonts explains that discarded newspapers picked up by the train guards are converted into real money and used to defray the expense of keeping the trains and stations tidy. So, if anybody wishes to cheat the common carrier of New York city, he may carry out his newspaper with him and throw it Into the street

thus aiding the city by paying a fine for mussing up the city's thoroughfares. During the last six months, says the announcement from 15 Broadway, the passengers In the subway left more than 900 tons of newspapers behind them when they left the trains, an average of five tons a day. These papers, sold at the prevailing rate for waste paper, net the Interborough about $S,000 not a large sum when It comes to financing a subway system, but one which can help to pay the 100 porters needed to keep the stations clean. These figures do not include the papers from the elevated lines. While the Interborough is able to get a return from the piles of newspapers which are left in the trains there is no revenue to be derived from the mountains of dirt which also are carried into the stations on the feet of the passengers. Between the first of January and the first of July 72S,000,000 human feet each carried into the stations their contribution to 1,500 tons of dirt almost enough to build an island for a garbage plant which were removed from the stations.

Clancy Prevented Theft of Queerisboro Bridge NEW YORK. Persons who have been accustomed to waking up every morning and finding the Queensboro bridge in its usual place will be pleased to hear that an attempt to steal that $20,000,000 structure piece by piece has been frustrated. Just as in other days, the

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Hunter's Toint police station. His "beat" the other day was the Queensboro bridge. About four o'clock in the afternoon Clancy saw four men in an automobile drive on the bridge and -stop near a big copper feed cable for electricity belonging to the city. The men, all In overalls, got out their tools and began to work with the cable. Clancy stood at a distance and looked. He also did a little thinking. "Faith," said he to himself, "a fine time o' day for men to be a-working." The more Clancy thought about this situation the more he was convinced that it was an extraordinary thing for persons seemingly employed by the city to be doing any work on a Saturday afternoon. "Something must hare happened," he muttered, as he cogitated this strange situation and meandered slowly in the direction of the laborers. But the laborers saw him coming. Three of them jumped into the automobile and escaped, while the fourth attempted unsuccessfully to outrun the wily policeman. AVhen Clancy went back to the place where the men had been working he found that the big cable had been cut in two places. It's worth S1.25 a foot. "Faith," said Clancy, "that is the very worst thing I ever heard of trying

to steal the bridge from under my feet."

Chicagoan Makes Costly Experiment in Honesty CHICAGO. Time was when A. W. Kaney was a trusting, confiding person who believed that in every human heart there is a pay-streak of honesty. Mr. Kaney lest his wallet. In it were papers and some $125. So he inserted an advertisement in the newspapers, as

follows : "A TEST OF HUMAN NATURE The writer oi this believes in the basic honesty of humanity. Sometime Tuesday night he lost a billfold containing about S125. He does not need the money, does not want it, but desires above all things to have it returned to stOL) the jeers of scoffing friends who do not hold his opinion. If the linder will return the purse to room 328 Hotel Sherman, he will not only save

my peace of mind but will be rewarded beyond every expectation." A few nights later, Mr. Kaney was dressing in his room at the Sherman preparatory to going out. There came a rap on the door. Opening it, Mr. Kaney found ihere a blond youth of cherubic countenance and confiding mien. "He asked me," said Mr. Kaney, "if I would give him a description of the billfold and its contents, which I did minutely. He said : Tve found your wallet. It's at home. At first I was going to keep it, but after seeing your ad in the paper I just couldnM:. And, God knows, I need it, too. But I am going to give it back to you.' " 'Fine ! Fine !' I shouted, patting him on the back. That's tine. Not only havs you proved yourself an honest youth, but you have restored me something more than the mere money my belief in the basje honesty of mankind. And you have also enabled me to give the laugh to a lot of my Doubting Thomas friends. For that, I am going to give you $50.' The youth with a lump in his throat thanked his benefactor and-departed, saying he would go home, get the purse and .return with it. Overjoyed at the proof of his convictions, Mr. Kaney went over to his dresser to finish dressing. "And I couldn't find my scarf pin, a diamond riug and a watch," ruefully confided Mr. Kaney later. The youth with the cherubic countenance and the confiding mien has not showed up. Neither has the purse.

Millions Will Be Spent on Defense at Norfolk NORFOLK, VA. Many millions of dollars will be spent on coast defenses at this point to protect the entrance to Chesapeake bay as a result of legislation passed by the present congress. In addition the navy yard here will be enlarged so that it will be able to build

landing supplies a connecting railway, an electric system and the submarine defenses other than materials, will cost nearly three millions more; while quarters for officers, barracks fur men, a machine shop and its equipment will altogether run over a million and a half. A mlilton dollars will be spent ultimately. In the improvement of a tract acquired a few years ago as arj annex to the yard, equipping it with water, light, power and rail systems, giving it a wet basin and a sea .wail which, when finished, will provide the yard with eight miles of waterfront. Norfolk will also have a thousaud-foot dry dock.

man who had reached the summit of high finance was described as one who would sell the Brooklyn bridge if he could find a purchaser, so henceforth the superlative criminal will doubtless be described as he who would steal the Queensboro bridge if Clancy were not on the job. Clancy is a policeman. He is an eagle-eyed policeman. "Curiosity" is his middle name. He is attached to the greatest warship. This city will show a substantial increase in population as a result of .preparedness activity. At Cape Henry and Fort Monroe many new giant rilles and great mortars will be cunningly placed behind concrete, steel and sand in such a way thatno warship can reach them. Guns and mortars at Cape Henry alone will cost $1,500,000. The emplacements and the plant, including a wharf for

PROTECT CORN FIELDS

Plow Land in Midsummer to Eradicate Cutworms. Vegetation Suitable for Moths to Lay Eggs Upon Is Removed Pasturing Hogs on Infested Land Is Good Practice. Land to be planted to corn the following spring, especially such land as has laid In grass for a considerable time and is likely to contain cutworms, should be plowed in midsummer or early fall about the .time the eggs are laid, or better, before the eggs are laid, for then vegetation which is suitable for the moths to lay their eggs upon is removed. The earlier the preceding year asslands to be planted to corn are plowed, the less will be the probability that the cutworm moths will have laid their eggs thereon, and the less, consequently will be the danger of injury by cutworms the following year. Late fall and winter plowing of grasslands, although not as effective Variegated Cutworm a, Moth; b, Normal Form of Caterpillar, Side View; c, Same in Curved Position; d, Dark Form, View of Back; e, Greatly En Iarged Egg, Seen From Side; f, Egg Mass on Twig. as early plowing, will destroy many of the hibernating cutworms, as well as such other important corn pests as white grubs, and should be practiced when earlier plowing is impracticable. Pasturing hogs upon land supposed to be harbor cutworms is a beneficial practice, as these animals root up and devour insects of many kinds, including cutworms, in large numbers. Farm poultry, if trained to follow the plow, will prove of inestimable value. When cutworms are found to be abundant on corn land, the use of the poisoned bait is recommended. This may be prepared as follows: Mix 50 pounds of wheat bran, 2 pounds of paris green, and 6 finely chopped oranges or lemons. Then bring the whole mixture to the consistency of a stiff dough by the addition of a cheap mo lasses, such as is used in cattle rations, adding water when necessary. Distribute this bait over the infested field in small lumps, taking care to sprinkle it sparingly around each hill. In case bran cannot be readily obtained, middlings or alfalfa meal may be successfully substituted. Frequently cutworms migrate to cultivated fields from adjoining grassland, and in such cases the crops can be protected by running a narrow band of the poisoned bait around the edge of the field or along the side nearest the source of infestation. IMPROVEMENT ON A TRACTOR Joliet Manufacturer Granted Patenton Steering Mechanism Draw-Bar Pivoted to Rear. Patents were recently granted a Joliet, 111., manufacturer on an improvement in the steering mechanism. A draw-bar is pivoted to the rear portion Tractor Improvement. of the tractor to swing about a vertical pivot, this draw-bar having a rearwardly extending part In combination with the drive wheel and steering wheel. Farming Business. ACTIVE FEEDING TREE ROOTS Does Not Do Much Good to Pour Water Around Stem Distribute It Around Under Branches. (By W. C. PALMER, North Dakota Agricultural College.) The active feeding roots of a tree are not near the trunk, but out on the very ends of the new roots. In watering a tree it does not do much good to just pour water around the stem. Distribute it from the trunk out as far as the branches reach. GET INFORMATION ON SPRAYS When in Doubt Write to State Experiment Station or Department of Agriculture at Washington. If you are not perfectly sure that you know just when and how the spraying should be done, write immediately to your state experiment station, or the department of agriculture, "Washington, and ask for information. It will be furnished in printed form, free of charge, and very plainly itated. Don't put it off. Write today.

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PRUNING OF SMALL .FRUITS

Cutting of Raspberry and Blackberry, Bushes Should Begin In Summer Cut Out Old Canes. Pruning is more essential in the case of bush fruits than it is with fruit trees. If the bushes are left unpruned a single season, they become a mass of tangled growth that bears little fruit, and this of poor quality. The pruning of blackberry and raspberry bushes should rightly begin in summer, when the canes are through bearing. The canes that have borne the crop should be cut away, to give the new shoots a better chance to develop Into vigorous canes. If the old canes were not removed last summer they should be cut now. But three or four new stalks should be permitted to grow from a clump. The tips of these new canes should bo pinched off when they have reached a height of four feet This pinching back Is to develop a strong, vigorous lateral growth, since the fruit forms on growths that start from the laterals. Spring pruning consists in cutting out all wood that has borne berries and the shortening of laterals on new wood to IS to 20 inches. The new plants that develop between the clumps should be kept down, if these are not wanted for planting. The currant bush requires little pruning during the first two or three years, other than a slight shortening of the ends of the canes. This shortening is done to increase the fruit buds along the cane. Currants do not form on new wood, and In order to havo a good crop each season It Is advisable, in pruning, to leave an equal number of the one-year and two-year-old canes to each bush. HOLD WIRE CLOSE TO GROUND Effective Method of Securing Lower Strand in Place Is Shown in Illustration Herewith. Fences which inclose pastures for hogs, or other smaller animals, are usually stretched to give rigidity and strength. Often the adjustment of the wire, after being put into pla e, causes it to rise from the ground between the fence posts, permitting the a mals to Method of Holding Wire. escape. An effective method of holding the wire close to the ground Is shown in the sketch, writes O. B. Laurent of JSTew Roads, La., in Popular Mechanics Magazine. A peg, notched near its upper end, is driven into the ground so that the lower edge of the wire mesh is held fast in the notch. SILAGE BEST DAIRY RATION It Is Palatable, Succulent, Beneficial to the Digestive Tract and It Quite Economical. Silage has been used more especially for feeding dairy cows than any other class of live stock. No dairy farm is completely equipped without a winter silo and also a silo of small diameter for summer feeding, unless soiling crops are used. Good silage possesses several of the desirable characteristics of a good dairy ration. It is palatable, succulent, bulky, beneficial to the digestive tract and economical. A ration must have these characteristics as well -as have a balance of nutrients in order to be conducive to large and economical milk production. Experiments have shown that butt erf at was produced 8 cents per pound cheaper and 100 pounds of milk 42 cents cheaper where silage replaced corn fodder in a dairy ration. FINE FERTILIZER IS WASTED Farmers Can Save Immense Amount of Money by Utilizing All Manur Produced on Farmi. When the farmers of our country thoroughly appreciate the actual amounts of fertilizing constituents which are contained in farm manures. and Intelligently care for and utilize the manure produced on their farms, they can save millions of dollars in fertilizer purchases ; and the necessity of depending upon the purchase of these fertilizers, followed by the oc currences of crises in the fertilizer sit uation such as now exists in some sec tions, will be largely decreased. REDUCE LOSS1 AMONG CHICKS Minnesota Poultry Specialist Provides Feather Dusters In Brooders for Youngsters. A Mlnuesota poultry specialist claims to be able to reduce the loss among incubator chicks by providing the brooder with feather dusters. The chicks in coming In contact with the dusters imagine that they are being brooded by a hen and consequently do not become homesick and despondent over the fact that thy hav noi mother to love them.

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