Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 59, Number 16, Jasper, Dubois County, 22 December 1916 — Page 3

Can Men Ref ormWoman's Dress? By LAURA JEAN UBBEY

Selfishness was everywhere, Greed had carried love away; Every face was marred by care ' Ah! but that was yesterday. If there is one thing above all others that a stylish woman will not confess it is that she is dressing to please the men. The truth is she craves to look her best in the eyes of admirer, lover and husband. No one bemoans the advent of an a b surd fashion more than the women who are dismayed by them, but forced into wearing them. When it comes down to the truth of the matter, men are to blame fcr fashion's freakishness by not rising up en masse in protestation against them, not openly, but by clever ruses. What sweetheart will feel quite satisfied with her new hooped gown if her lover remarks with a well-simulated sigh, "Of'course I don't know anything about women's styles, but in my eyes you look a thousand times sweeter, more girlish, in the dress you have just laid aside than In this new one. If you want to make iur happy wear the other dress or a n:v one made on those pretty simpi; lines." Nine girls out of ten Fowls kept in a clean henhouse are .more likely to be free from disease. A little practice will enable one to dry-pick chickens and fowls and those so picked will usually bring better prices. As the chicks grow older and larger, be sure that they do not overcrowd their coops, for If they crowd at night they will not make the best use of their food and will not grow as they, should. Grit and oyster shell should be included in the ration for both young and ,old. To neglect this would be poor economy. To finish fattening turkeys give them all the whole or cracked corn they will eat two or three times a day. Now that the poultry cannot obtain bugs and worms in the fields, the need of animal food must be supplied by" beef scraps, fish meal or cut, fresh bone. Spoiled grain and shrunken grain, although it can be bought cheaper than good grain, is usually more expensive to feed, because it has so little food value In it. There is no advantage in keeping males in the flock of layers until the hens are mated for die breeding season next spring. In fact, they are usu.ally a disturbing factor. It is always better to pen pullets separately from hens and feed them separately hecause the pullets usually need more food to complete their development and start them laying. Feed a variety of grain, including corn, a little wheat and some oats, if possible, and the feed will cost less in proportion to the eggs produced, for fowls cannot do well on one kind of food alone. A Directoire Fur Set Sets of fur and velvet are quite the thing. One very charming directoire set consists of a bonnet, waist-length cape, and a round barrel muff of medium size. The velvet cape is circular, dropping lower at the front and back, and edged with a fiveinch band of kolinsky fur. It is shirred to shoulder depth in many encircling rows and has a little fur band collar. The poke bonnet has several encircling bands of narrow fur and a shoulder depth net veil, banded twice around the bottom with narrow fur bands. The muff is a fat little affair covered entirely with shirred velvet. The fur band is placed about the cente of the muff. tt Donkeys in War Donkeys of the small African kind have taken the place of mules for transport work in the French trenches. It is not the first time that donkeys have taken part in military operations. The Persians and Greeks made use of 'them in their convoys, and there is the instance of the donkeys which carried the members of the French institute on Bonaparte's Egyptian expedition. Whenever the column was attacked by the enemy, the soldiers formed u square and shoutetl "Donkeys in the center"; whereupon the academicians would sepk the refuge thus proffered. Geoffroy Snint-Hilnire Is responsible for the ftory.

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will brave fashion's eccentricity to look adorable in the eyes of the man they care for. The married man has a better grasp on the situation. He need not be so careful in choosing his language; his arrows enn strike home with surprising accuracy. He can adroitly shame the wife who cares for his opinion into not countenancing outlandish modes, especially in the case where she has glided past the fair and forty period and has accumulated more than her share of avoirdupois. It is effective if the husband of such a wife throws up his hands in apparent horror when she shows him her new beruffled, hoop-skirted gown in triumph, exclaiming:

.Mow, Lucy, what could have posFAVORITE OF FILMDOM Lois Meredith. Young star who has- many followers among patrons of the movie theaters. Spending Money Relative Matter Whether It's Buying Peanuts or a Private Car The spending of thousands without thought is probably not so different from spending dimes and coppers when you get used to it. The man who makes half a million over night in war babies probably feels much .the same when he blows $10,000 at a lick as you do after you get your envelope and take home a bag of peanuts to the kids. There is a kind of glow of satisfaction in being able to spend a dime. As for the loss of the money neither you nor the millionaire will know the difference by Monday morning. It is all a relative matter, says a writer. Just the same, it must be a sensation the first time you do as the man did who breezed into the Pennsylvania railroad office in New York one day last summer and ordered a private car to take him to San Francisco. Of course, the Pennsy gets similar orders every once and so often and they are not in the habit of becoming excited about them. But this was a little out of the ordinary, because no private cars were to be had, and when the prospective traveler was so advised he seemed to feel somewhat as commuters do when the incoming fall time table drops the fast summer train. In other words, he appeared to be annoyed and he showed it by ordering the railroad folk to buy him a car. They did that little thing to oblige and it cost him some $20,000 but it was worth it. He didn't have to worry once between New York and the coast about getting up and giving a perfectly good, comfortable seat to a lady. Wise and Otherwise. No, Alonzo, spot cash isn't always spotless cash. A tight man and equally dangerous. The older a woman a loose dog are grows the fewer adjectives she uses. Experience teaches us how to make other kinds of mistakes. Man wants but little here below, but he never gets quite enough. Out idea of a selfish person Is one who is unable to remember a favor. Sometimes a woman's face overdoes It in th matter of telling her age. It isn't alwa5s the people who jolly you most who are your best friends. No. Philander, you can't always tell how much a girl wants to be kissed by the strenuous objections she puts up. A girl may call her small brother into the parlor and kiss him just to show the young man on the other end of tho sofa what he is missin i rr

sessed a fat woman yes, I sny a fat woman like you to stand for a caricature of that kind I cannot understand. You will appear to weigh 200 In It. Couldn't you have realized tt will make you seem to be years older than you really are? When we are seen walking together, people will suppose at a casual glance that I am taking my mother out for an airing. If you want to please me wear something built upon simple lines." Of course the wife is thrown fnto a spasm of griof and tears, but the dress has become so obnoxious to her she hies straightway to her fashionable modiste, ordering the hoops and the bustle removed. If all the women, young and old. who constitute society, refuse to accept this freakish fashion, or that one, the makers of styles would leash their imaginations, giving a little serious thought to the fitness of the modes they launch upon a world of suffering women. Men, and men only, could work a reformation that would be an eye-opener to fashion creators. Men should set their feet cautiously down on the fat lady wearing skirts so tight that she has to be hoisted by main force into a street car; and wearing a bohooped affair means extra cars for the company, if a dozen or more hoop-skirted women of ample girth are to be accommodated within

a car's limits, or separate cars for mere men. Pretty young tilings can look like charming old pictures no matter what they choose to don. Yet. men must begin to frown down absurd fashions on girls. If girls look pretty in them older women will wear them or die in the attempt. (Copyright, 191G.) MOTHER'S C00K BOOK On every hand are seen young man and woman failures, a disappointment to themselves and their friends, who bitterly complain because of undernutrition during the formative period of life: they are hampered in their ambitions by chronic ill health; anemia, incipient stages of tuberculosis and other wasting diseases. No patent medicines nor abundance of food later in life will make up for the deficiency of building material during the time of cellular or tissue formation. Janet Mill. Soups of Various Kinds. Soup is a food that is equally good for old and young, and a nourishing soup is especially good for growing children and should be often found in the ration prepared for them. Cream soups and purees are more nourishing than the clear broths. The latter serve a valuable purpose when followed by a hearty meat dish, but the heavier soups are a meal of themselves if served with plenty of good bread and butter. Children should have much simpler meals than the parents and, when possible, have their meal earlier, so that they may have plenty of sleep. Soup meat should never be put into water to be washed, but carefully wiped with a damp cloth, as washing deprives it of its juices. Rich Brown Stock. Almost any kind of meat and bone may be put into the stock pot and the careful housewife will not waste one clean scrap of meat or bone. Take three and a half pounds of beef, some poultry or game bones, four cloves, two bay leaves, one teaspoonful of whole peppers, two quarts of cold water,. two carrots, two browned onions, two -stalks of celery, some sweet herbs, like marjoram or thyme, and simmer slowly for four hours; strain and when cold remove the fat. The bones may be again covered with water .and simmered to extract all flavor, and this thinner soup used to add llavor to other soups. White Stock. Take three and a half pounds of veal, a chicken or a rabbit, two stalks of celery, any poultry bones, two blades of mace, one onion, two quarts of cold water; cut'the meat into small pieces, put them into the pot with the water and just simmer for four hours ; strain, and when cold remove the fat. The bones may again be covered with water and cooked for a thinner soup. A most delicious dumpling to serve with a soup or stew is prepared as follows: Take a cupful of buttermilk if sweet no soda will be needed, if sour add only a pinch of soda a beaten egg, flour to make a drop batter and two teaspoonfuls of baking powder, with a half-teaspoonful of salt. Drop by teaspoonfuls into the boiling soup and cook, tightly covered, eight to ten. minutes. "Hu! TvutvA School Ventilation Solved I The problem of schoolroom ventilation was solved by a California school superintendent. In his study of the situation the superintendent found that ordinary windows are not proper ly placed to take off the heavier gases nnerateu by the breathing of several persons in a room, and that ventilators close to the floor are necessory. To meet this need he devised a type of schoolroom which has been widely adoped in Santa Clara county. The two outer walls are practically filled with windows, including rows even with the floor. These lower ones, like the others, are hinged at the upper edge and stand opei. practically all tho time. It is stated that the pupils in these rooms snow marked improvement in tlieir work. Popular Mechanics.

Old Father Time By HARRY IRVING GREENE

'X Cony rieht, iqi Western Newspaper Union.

I came with Space, and hand in hand, We two sat here alone, As two twin Kings of equal might Sit side by side athrone. While eons came, and eons went,In ceaseless passing flight, And all was still as dungeons deep,' And black as moonless night. Then age by age a million years We watched the Sun take form, While through the void in endless count, The Stars were being born. And. then from out unfathomed Space, We saw the world appear. I shook my glass and from it fell, ; A Sand of Time the first New Year. The Years! I watched them come and go,' 'Till I could count no more, The Old the New like falling rain, Or sands upon a shore. Through age of Mist, and age of storm, And age of sweeping Flame, 'Till last Man came with gift of speech, And gave to me my Name. Old Father Time, he calls me now, As close I glean my tithe. I walk the Earth with silent thread, Yet ever sweep my Scythe. orever old, yet doomed to live, 1 rest but none is here. .gain I raise my Glass and pour Another Sand a new, New Year.

HER NEW YEAR RESOLVE Reverie of the Old Year. But listen .' The old year is speaking. "How strange a thing is the ingratitude of man," he says in slow, faltering accents. "Man is not satisfied with all the benefits the year has bestowed upon him, but must scoff at winter and regard him as a mortal foe. Thus winter falls A heavy gloom oppressive o'er the world. Through Nature shedding influence malign; 'Tray, what would these creatures have summer the year round? Is there no one who will say a good word for winter?" Countryside Magazine. Make early. your New Year's resolutions

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MAKE THESE RESOLUTIONS. I will take good care of m.v body. P 1 will have house cleaning in the house I live in. I will not procrastinate in instituting preparedness against disease. I will keep clean inside and out. I will avoid dirt. I will cultivate good cheer. I will avoid anger, hate and morosen ess. 3? 1 2fc God's Presence Everywhere. If we lift up our eyes to heaven, God's glory shineth forth; If we cast them down upon the earth, it is full of his goodness. The hills and the valleys rejoice and sing ; fields, rivers and woods resound his praise. We will think of God when we play and when we work; when we 'walk out and when we come in; when we sleep and when we wake; his praise shall dwell continually upon our lips. Anna L. Barbauld. WRITE ALL RIGHT. "Do you know how to begin the New Year right" "Sure ! To begin . the New Year, write 191G."

CANADA

AGAIN

A PRIZEWINNER Highest Premiums Awarded at Many Exhibitions, The Fall fair season is past and a retrospect of them shows that Western Canada is stronger than ever in the matter of exhibits, and lias taken more than her usual share of the prize money. From Western Canada to Texas is a long look, from Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba to the southwestern corner of Texas is several days journey, but the enterprising farmers from this new country to the northwest were wide awake to the possibilities that waited them at the International Dry Farming Congress held at El Paso, Texas, a few weeks ago, to bring to the atcention of those in that far-off corner what the land of Western Canada could do in the production of grains and roots from its soil. And what did these farmers do? The first thing was to carry oft tho first prize and sweepstakes for wheat That was a foregone conclusion, for it has now become an established fact that nowhere else in the world is there grown wheat of the high character and market value of Western Canadian wheat. The same may be said of oats, of barley and of rye. But when It came to notice that Western Canada took first prize for alfalfa, it was then that more special attention was given to the products from Western Canada. It showed that in that country there lies the opportunity for supplementing the wonderful native grasses, so full of nutrition that with the tamed varieties, among them being alfalfa, the cattle with no other food were fattened and fitted for the shambles. Western Canada's worth was proved as probably, the greatest mixed farming portion of the continent When the steers from the Western Canadian prairies reach the Chicago stockyards they bring the top price and outweigh those from other places where grass fattening is the process. But it was not only in grains that Western Canada carried off the highest honors at the El Paso exhibition. Potatoes, parsnips, beets, carrots and rutabagas also took the highest honors. In root production this country is becoming favorably known. . The question often arises as to markets. There is always the highest price awaiting the producer, and as soon as the Hudson Bay Railway, now about completed, reaches the Bay, there will be an additional outlet for the product of the farm. The Pacific coast route, via the Panama canal, will give another outlet of which full advantage may be taken. With virgin land selling at from 515 to $20 per acre, and improved farms at reasonable prices and on easy terms, there is no better opportunity for the man with limited means and a desire to secure a home at the least cost in a country where he can soon become wealthy, as thousands of others have done, than in Western Canada. To the man with less means and who is prepared to accept a farm of 160 acres free, the Dominion Government offers him his choice in districts that have land of the highest type, but at present being from ten , to twenty miles from a railway. The Peace River Country, now being opened for settlement and reached by railway affords excellent opportunity to the homesteader. To secure information as to Western Canadian lands write the Canadian Government agent whose name appears elsewhere in this paper. Advertisement The Headdress Fixes Age. One handsome woman I know, who is purely of the Louis XV type, with gray hair, bright eyes and a quiet manner, completely killed her good looksand added ten years to her age by adopting the Castle style of hair dressing. And that is what unbecoming headdresses can do to women of forty and fifty! At this time in a woman's life she still wishes to be considered youthful, and she can look young and be young, if only she is careful of her diet, her conduct in public, and her headdress. ' A suitable coiffure, the style of which is changed frequently enough to avoid becoming monotonous and commonplace in appearance, will work miracles for a woman, regardless of the fact that she has all but reached "years of discretion." Lucile, in Harper's Bazar. HOW TO TREAT DANDRUFF Itching Scalp and FaillnQ Hair With Cuticura. Trial Free. On retiring touch spots of dandruff and itching with Cuticura Ointment Next morning shampoo with Cuticura Soap and hot water. A clean, healthy scalp means good hair and freedom, in most cases, from dandruff, itching, burning, erustings and scalinffi. Free sample each by mail with Book. Address postcard, Cuticura, Dept. L, Boston. Sold everywhere. Adr. Good Acting. "What did you think of Tragedian Flubdub's acting?" "I saw better acting among some ol his friends in the audience." "Vhat do you mean?" v.. uiviu uuiu lUJl CcOCU Only One "BROMO QUININE" To get the genuine, call for full use LdLXATIYB BROMO QUIN IN JL Look tor tkmitare of a W. An ounce of happiness contributed to another Is a pound added to your owm.