Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 59, Number 8, Jasper, Dubois County, 27 October 1916 — Page 3

MUST COVER ARMS

Kone of the best winter wraps Imve elbow sleeves; all show the arms covered right down to the wrists. And tills Is an excellent idea. Last winter, when It was so much the fashion to have elbow sleeves on smart wrapcoats huge muffs were popular, and the arms could be thrust right into these muffs and so covered. But now the correct muff Is quite small and barrel shape, like the curious little muffs shown in sone famous portraits by Romney and Reynolds, writes the Paris correspondent of the Boston Globe. Very high, full collars are still fashionable on wrap coats; high straight collars like those of last winter. But cape-collars are creeping in. Some of the latest coat models designed by Paquin and Worth showed large cape-collars which gave almost a fichu effect. When collars of this order are intro duced the only other fur trimming on the wrap takes the form of wide bands on the sleeves. Long Russian blouses, made of soft-faced cloth and bordered with fur, will be fashionable for girls. These will be knee-length and cut almost straight from neck to hem, a wide sash of embroidered and fringed silk bandii'g them in at the waist. TheRus-sian-btouse-coatees are extremely becoming to slender figures, and they look most attractive when worn over anklelength plaited skirts. Premet is one of the important dressmakers who has made the Russian blouse popular this year. She Is making the loveliest indoor costumes in this style, with the long tunic blouse in crepe de chine and the skirt underneath in accordion pleated satin. Rich borders of fur are introduced on the tunics and the most costly embroideries in which silver and gold threads play an important role. An exquisite Premet model was expressed in navy blue chiffon and Charmeuse in the same color. The kneelength Russian-tunic was made of the chiffon, and it was bordered all around with intricate embroideries worked in platinum threads. At the extreme edge there was a border of skunk, and -the Charmeuse skirt was closely plaited. An effective sash made of puce-red Indian silk was wound round the waist, a bright crimson rose being stuck' into its folds. All women, and girls, will be glad to know that long straight tunics nre once more fashionable. The Parisian dressmakers call these garments "chemise-tunics," nncqit is an excellent name, for they are really cut like a very full chemise. Everything depends on just liow such tunics are worn, and how tne sash -always of some strongly contrasting color is tied. Fur trimmings are more popular than ever; for coats, dresses, hats and wraps. All the newest millinery models show effective bands of fur somewhere. Take for example the original model which I have sketched this week. This is a Lewis design and Chinese in type. The hat itself was made of black panne and the trimming consisted of a narrow border and, on the top, ii cabochon of ermine. It was an amazingly chic model and one which should be worn pulled right clown over the forehead. Big velvet tam-o'-shanters are fashionable as ever, and they are universally becoming. The most comfortable models are those made on generous lines, with an invisible band of elastic to hold the cap in place on the head. These hats and, indeed, hats and caps of all kinds are worn pulled down over the forehead, slightly tilted over one eye. DIrectoire shapes in neutral-tinted felt are popular with the smartest Parisiennes. These little hats are almost always accompanied by a circular veil made of cobweb net and bordered with fine metallic embroidery. FOR COMFORT OF INVALID Bedside Pedestal One of the Greatest Conveniences That Can Well Be Devised. It Is nice to have something by the side of a bed upon which a candle and a box of matches, a water bottle and tumbler, and possibly a book may be placed, but even if a small table is used for this purpose It is generally rather in the way. We give a sketch, therefore, of a useful pedestal that can be easily prepared with a packing case of the shape and size indicated, and inside It can be

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fitted up with shelves, and slippers and shoes, and unsightly odds and ends can be stored away in it. The lid of the case will not be required, and can be cut up for making the shelves. The sides of the bos are smoothly covered with some pretty inexpensive cretonne, the material being turned over at the edge aod underneath and fastened on with tacks. The top should be covered with American cloth, as It can be cleaned with

Bedside Pedestal. a damp cloth. Round the sides, at the top, a short frill of cretonne is fastened on with braid and brass-headed nails, and in front there is a curtain made of some of the same cretonne, that can be lifted up when anything is required from inside the pedestal. The shelves are composed of pieces Of wood cut to fit across the box and supported in their places by bars of wood nailed on, on either side, inside the box. This can be seen in the small sketch at the top on the left öf the illustration. No household should be without a , pedestal of this kind, as in case of sickness it is most useful for holding medicine bottles, papers, books, watchstand, etc., and its preparation costs but little. ROSEBUSH LAMP POPULAR Latest Boudoir Furnishing Is of a Design That at Least Has the Merit of Novelty. The latest absurdity in boudoir furnishing is the rosebush lamp, which is so bizarre and novel that one may pay 40 good dollars for it and be in the very van of the mode if cne fancies such things. The base of the lamp is hand-carved and paintGd in old ivory to represent an earthen flower pot. From this rises the metal standard of greön metal with sprouting green leaves and red rosebuds all cleverly intertwined with the central stem or standard. Presumably the lamp shade of pink silk represents the full-blown rose at the top of the long stein ; but since the "rose" is twice the size of the flowerpot below, the imagination must strain itself somewhat to accept the effect. The whole lamp stands 29 inches high and is intended for a boudoir or a drawing room furnished in delicate tints. POPULAR FALL FASHION This is one of the latest models of fall and winter hats. It is a smart littie Smolin "Blue Bird" style of dark brown panne velvet, with a guinea hen set at a jaunty angle on the front of the crown. This style will be worn extensively this fall, fashion experts say, by the smart set. Styles and Gymnastics. With a series of highly complicated calisthenics, milady ties herself into her fur stole. You'd never know but that it was a voluminous fur wrap when she gets done winding it around the back of her neck, crossing it in front, passing it under her arms, bringing it back over her shoulders and slipping it through the front, crossing to hold it tight. Fur on Veils. Fur-trimmed veils are to be worn and they are extremely attractive with autumn hats. Sometimes they are edged with a single band of fur, sometimes with three narrow bands. Black Satin Stoles. Black satin stoles are much worn for these between-season days. They are lined with white or colored or figured satin or silk, or with chiffon. Lacings. Bodice lacings are used in some ol the new velvet and satin frocks.

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Intensive Farming on Philadelphia's Vacant Lots PHILADELPHIA. Some of the most intensive farming In the country is Carried on in the city of Brotherly Love, on its vacant lots, especially out along Woodland avenue, where there are some of the best little farms to be

found anywhere. Jonathan My, a farmer lad of eighty-three, last year coaxed at the rate of 900 out of an acre. A rival agriculturist, who had copied some of Mr. Fly's methods, made Mother Earth give him at the rate of $960 to the acre. There are in Philadelphia this year 610 little farms such as these upon which poor families have grown an average of $300 to the acre. The Vacant Lots Cultivation asso

ciation is almost old enough to vote. It has been operating long enough to have proved that for every dollar which kind-hearted philanthrophy donates for the purpose of tilling town lots four dollars come out of the ground. Even a captain of finance or a war bride doesn't expect to make over 300 per cent, and that is what these G10 little farms will do this year.

An owner has a ten-acre plot of ground, upon which he allows poor people to grow crops. The lots association plows the ground and fertilizes it gratis and the little gardeners do the planting, cultivating and reaping. Any day the owner wants his land to sell or build upon he may have it He merely loans it to his more unfortunate brothers until he needs it. Up at George's hill is a man of eighty-seven years who is famous for the way he tills his little farm. There are hundreds of families who grow a year's vegetable supply upon their borrowed land. Some men have been working the same plot for 15 years. The industrious are never driven from their gardens so long as the garden is available for use. The ordinary farmer is content with one crop in a year. Not so with scores of these city tillers of land that may be worth anywhere from $1,000 to $20,000 an acre. They frequently raise two or three crops in a season off the same plot, the plots averaging one-sixth of an acre.

St. Louis' Municipal Bridge Finally Is Landed ST. LOUIS. St. Louis' big, balky mule the municipal, free bridge has come ashore. After stubbornly standing in the Mississippi river more than four years, it finally stepped out and was tied to the eastern approach with four 27-ton steel girders. The

Louis have been feeding $S29 in cash every day into the Mississippi river in the shape of interest charges and sinking fund. This has amounted to more than $300,000 a year in feed bills, for which St. Louis got nothing except a healthier balk. The cost of the bridge to date has been more than $6,000,000. The first issue of bonds in 1908 was $3,500,000. Work was begun in December, 1909, and was to be completed within two yean?. The second bond issue for the eastern approach was $2,750,000. To this must be added the interest charges since the issue of the first bonds, about eight years. In the intervening six years during the building of the "balky mule" and while it stood there in the river until the second bond issue was passed two years ago, the old house of delegates and city council kicked back and forth dozens of bills and held many "investigations" and secret meetings to determine the correct route for an east approach. This unpleasant portion of ancient history included factional squabbles, and many personally conducted efforts of various members of the assembly to cause the east approach to be built along the route outlined exclusively by them. These approaches ran in various directions, and a combined map of them all would show East St. Louis covered by the ribs of a fan, with zig-zag curves and extensions to what was termed "free territory."

Patsy Was on the Pier to Meet His Loved Ship NEW YORK. When the Berkshire of the Hudson Navigation company arrived at her pier the other day from Albany, passengers on board were startled by the barking of a dog, followed by cheers from the crew. There on the pier stood a very bedraggled

dog, held by a watchman, and fairly shrieking with joy. The instant the gangplank was pushed over, the dog broke from the man and shot on board to hurl himself into the engine room. Patsy had "come back." Pasty, who is all dog, was picked up two years ago by Stephen Flynn, engineer of the Berkshire, while he was on board the Trojan of the same line. The dog had crept into -the

shelter of the pier with a broken leg, and the engineers put the leg in splints and cared for him until he was well again. Patsy attached himself to Flynn, and when the engineer was transferred to the Berkshire he followed him and became the pet of the vessel. While the Berkshire was off Hastings on her way to Albany, the dog, playing with a steward's boy, slipped overboard after a bone. The boy was too alarmed to say a word, and it was not until the Berkshire got to Albany the next morning that he confessed. Early next day the watchman at pier 82, Hudson river, was aroused by the barking of a dog and, opening the wicket, he admitted the wet and footsore Patsy, minus his handsome collar, and with a bad cut over one eye. He took care of him until the vessel arrived.

New York Discovers That It Has a Lemon Creek

NEW XOBK. Class in New York city's geography, stand up. Where is Lemon creek? Of course, everybody knows that there are 49 islands in the city boundaries, but who knows where to find Lemon creek? The United States government

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sition to improve Lemon Creek." Looking through a spyglass at a city map you may find Lemon creek, about a jump and a half wide, starting somewhere abaft the beam of Lake island, where Staten island's favorite garbage disposal plant will not be built unless it is built. It then flows down grade toward the Lower bay, and leaps deftly into that great fishing resort near the spot where the fishermen get their loads of bait and tilings. The proprietor of the creek was away from home when an attempt was made to learn why he is not satisfied with Lemon creek in its wild ind unimproved state.

t balk has been removed, and the steel halter promises to make the "mule" a tractable and useful public utility. It no longer is the "endless" bridge, "approachless" Jinx, or any of the other fantastic creatures which jokesters have pointed out as one of the most modern useless .structures in the world. , While the bridge was acting like a balky mule, the taxpayers of St. knows where Lemon creek is and yes, yau've guessed it the first time It is talking of Improving and enlarging the waterway with the name that makes your mouth water. "Oh October 2, in the Princess Bay Yacht clubhouse, Princess Bay beach," said the official notice issued by the United States army corps of engineers, "Lieut. Col. C. H. McKinstry will hold a hearing at 3:10 p. m. for the consideration of a propo

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FAITH IN GOOD ROADS

Country Spending $20G.OOO,OQCs Yearly on Improvements. Ratio Expected to Be Double That Amount in Next Decade Government Won't Aid Community That Doesn't Help Itself. The country is now spending well toward $200,000,000 a year on rural roads perhaps twice what it was spending for that purpose ten years ago. Faith in good roads probably j increased during the decade in an even greater ratio, and it will be surprising it the expenditure ten years hence is not double 200,000,000. This is mainly, of course, an effect of the motor car; but a lot of people misjudge the motor car because they forget or do not know that in all the more prosperous rural regions a gasoline vehicle nowadays is just about as standard an implement as a mowing machine. The day has long gone by when good roads agitation could be discredited by ascribing it to bloated urban plutocrats who wanted to ride comfortably. By an act that became law last month the federal government purposes to contribute $75,000,000 for good country roads used by the postal service, sharing the expense equally with the states or other local units. The work is to be done on specifications approved by the department of agriculture, duly inspected and approved. The federal government ought to contribute, for highways are a legitimate national interest. Under this law it helps no community that does not first help itself. Its participation will tend powerfully to standardize road building and to distribute the results of experience; so it should tend to give a better quality of road for no greater cost. Twenty-five years ago any given socalled public highway was usually the exclusive affair of a board of supervisors or commissioners who ruled for a year over a territory three or four miles square. Presently the counties came in ; then the states ; now the federal government which is as it should be. Saturday Evening Post. WHITEWASH OF HIGH VALUE Government Standard Is Very White and WiN Last Well When Used on Outside Jobs. Following is the well-known standard recipe for "Government Whitewash:" Slake one-half bushel fresh lime with boiling water, covering it to keep in the steam. Strain liquid through a fine sieve and add seven pounds of fine salt, previously dissolved in warm water; three pounds of ground rice, boiled to a thin paste and stirred in, boiling hot; one-half pound bolted gilders whiting; one pound white glue, soaked first in cold water until swollen, then carefully melted over fire. To this mixture add five gallons of hot water and let it stand covered a few days. A pint of the whitewash will serve to cover nearly a square yard. It is very white and will last well when used on outside work. HANDY H06 SHIPPING CRATE Timber Used in Construction Should Be Southern Yellow Pine Liat of Material Needed. A strong shipping crate for hogs is an easy thing to make. It should be well built of southern yellow pine. A neatly built crate, a shipping tag bearing the shipper's name and that of his farm often will aid in selling stock. Hog Shipping Crate. In case the shipment is to be a long one, wire a pan of water in one corner. Material for crate, 2 feet wide, 5 feet long and 3 feet high. 1 1 by 12, for bottom end board; 1 1 by 1 G 1G uprights and opening end ; 31 by 10 10 sides and closed end; 2 1 by 12 10 floor and bottom side boards; 11 by G S cleats. Farm and Home. SMALL TRACTOR IS FAVORED Profitable Implement If Enough Land Is Cultivated to Use It Economically, Say Users. The farm tractor is generally a profitable implement if enough land Is cultivated to use it economically. This is the opinion expressed by threefourths of the two hundred tractor users in Illinois to investigators for the United States department of agriculture. About one-third of the men in this list increased the acreage, on an average 120 acres to the farm, after buying the tractors and finding that they did not have room to use them to the best advantage.

EVEHY FARM needs woodlot

If Nature Has Not Provided One, Plant One It Is Not Difficult and Will Pay Well. (By w. j. MORRILL, Colorado Agrkroltural College, Fort Collins. Colo.) A permanent woodlot is an essential part of a well-organized farm. In the mountain valleys and along the streams in the plains, nature has provided these woodlots. In many places, however, the farmer must plant and raise his woodlot. The woodlot is convenient in providing fuel, posts, and wood for repairs. It may also serve as a windbreak, and for shelter for stock. On light soils or on steep slopes the trees will bind the soil, to prevent erosion. A woodlot needs proper protection Second Growfh White Oak. from stock and fire, and intelligentthinnings. After planting and cultivation during a few years, if thei woodlot is of artificial origin, thej work expended on it and the harvesting of its crops may be done in the winter, when other work is not pressing. Besides the direct value of a woodlot in furnishing wood and shelter, in esthetic value in improving the appearance of the farm and in furnishing recreation is of considerable importance in making life more worth living. Incidentally the well-kept, properly located woodlot adds selling value to the farm out of all proportions to the cost of establishing or tending the grove. FAMILY-TABLE FOOD SUPPLY Many Advantages in Raising Fruit, Vegetables, Meat, Bread, Etc. Convenience Counts. There are many advantages in raising enough fruit, vegetables, meat, bread ami sirup to supply the family table. The difference in cost between the store-bought foods and those raised on the" farm should be sufficient argument to convince people. But there is another advantage that is not always mentioned when people are arguing for home-raised foods. That is convenience. When the keeper of the farm home has unexpected company, as she oftea does, or when she is very busy with her housework and finds that the supplies are out, she is greatly embarrassed. But if she has the pantry, the storehouse, the smokehouse filled, little time may be lost in preparing an appetizing meal. Even when vegetables must be gathered from the garden, fruits from the orchard, peas, beans or potatoes from the fields, less time is lost and much less expense incurred than when someone with a team must go to town. Think of convenience and economy when you are planting crops for the food supply. FORMALIN TO RELIEVE BLOAT Promising Results Secured in Expertments Conducted by Experts at Kentucky Station. Experiments conducted at the Kentucky station with formaldehyde as a treatment for cattle badly affected with bloat caused by eating too muck succulent clover or alfalfa has given very promising results. One-haLf ounce of formalin in one? quart of water makes the proper solution for treating bloated animalsAfter administering the remedy, a block of wood is placed in the animal's mouth to allow the better escape of the gas. In all the cases tried the cows were in normal condition 20 to 25 minutes after the formalin solution was given, even when the animals were badly bloated and in a dangerous condition. Formalin Is a trade name for a -10 per cent solution of formaldehyde, and can be secured at any drug store. FALL AND WINTER PLOWING Number of Advantages in PracticeVarious Kinds of Insects Exposed to Cold Weather. There are a number of advantages in fall and winter plowing. The destruction of insects is not the least of them. Army worms, cut worms, Tlessian fly, grasshoppers and other very injurious insects live over the winter in the ground and by fall plowing or disking, these Insects are exposed to the freezing weather and killed, or they are crushed and disturbed in their winter sleep so that they perish. Old stubble fields should always be plowed during the fall or winter if the land it ' so situated as not to wash. Furnier ! Guide.

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