Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 59, Number 38, Jasper, Dubois County, 25 May 1917 — Page 2

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Silk Jersey Used

Silk and wool Jersey cloth have doomed up stronger in the dress lineup for spring and summer than last year. Wool jersey cloth is being used extensively for both sports and motor coats, and some of the new military capes are also being made of it, with usually a light-weight lining of gaycolored silk. . The little sports suit shown in 'the sketch is made of plain white and Ghartreuse silk jersey-cloth. The scarf Sports Suit -of -Silk Jersey, collar is the 'especial feature .of the suit. This collar is .formed of two folds of .the colored fabric, and it is attached to the neck of the coat at about its 'lengthwise center. When desired it: may be held together by the button and buttonhole appearing near the end. However, for summer "wear the collar will usually be worn open. The coat is finished With generous pockets, overlaid with buttoned-on laps of gold jersey. The skirt is simple and straight, gathered In at the waist-. line, and also equipped with pockets. This little sports suit might be at tractively developed with a coat of plain color and skirt of gay striped or flowered fabric, the skirt material in -any case serving to trim the coat. While .a great deal has been written' find said about the present season vogue for high colors, and the vogue certainly exists, there is a growing tendency at the present time to go to the other extreme. Hie little suit shown in the sketch requires three yards of fabric for skirt and coat trimming. Three and a .quarter yards will be needed for the -coat. The model would serve admirably for a suit of the novelty silks, popular this summer, or it might be developed in flannel, serge or linen. PRETTY AS WELL AS USEFUL Combined Cotton Holder and Pincushion Easily Made and May Be Found Big Convenience. This is a decorative and useful little article either for suspending from the posi. of the looking-glass or for hanging upon a nail in the wall. 'For the upper part a piece of wood measuring six and a half inches in length, three inches in width and half an inch in thickness will be required. This wood is sewn in between two pieces of silk, sufficient material being left at the lower edge to cover the pincushion. Diagram A explains this, the cross indicates the piece of wood, and the Cotton Holder and Pincushion. pieces of silk are seen hanging below it Diagram B shows the shape of the cushion that will be required; it measures six inches by five inches. The design upon the cushion is worked in three shades of green and the whole thing is edged throughout with a silk cord, which is arranged in two little loops on either side, at the top, and the ends that hang downwards are knottad and frayed out into tas-

sels, and at the bottom there are three little loops of cord. The reels of cotton are fastened in place -with brass-headed nails, upon which they will revolve freely when the cotton is being drawn off, and when necessary, new reels can be easily fastened in position.

USE OF TUCKS IS EFFECTIVE They Can Be Used to Advantage in Making a Serviceable as Well as Dainty Nightdress. Anyone "who desires to make a serviceable as well as n dainty nightgown should not forget the effectiveness of tiny tracks. One model on which this suggestion "was carried out was made with a square neck, .and was open down the front for .a short space; but this opening is really not necessary if one provides a sufficiently large neck. The upper front of the gown was decorated with groups of three tiny tucks arranged to form squares. In each square a daisy was embroidered in white. Anyone who desires a touch of color should substitute colored flowers for the white ones.- A casing of the material should be provided around the neok, if one does not intend to open 'the gown down the front, and a colored ribbon run through it You can easily see how such a gown would withstand frequent visits to the launSTRAWS MUST BE VEILED NOW Covering of Hats With Organdie or Other Thin Fabrics Is the Idea of the Hour. When :a woman 3s making up her mind about :her millinery she should fix her attention on the fact that the veiling of straw by a thin fabric is the idea of the hour. tStraw Is .used because straw is plentiful, but tbs milliners have taken up the idea that this rough material should Jiot be used in its nude state. It must be Teiled. 'The newest ihats sire covered with white organdie, just as many of the very smart frocks in foulard and crepe are covered wtlh organdie tunics and serge and gaberdine skirts have organdie peplums above them. A hat is of blue straw, of the stovepipe shape with a visor 'brim, gets its color from an ornate and splendid design worked out on the organdie in coral beads. DISTINCTIVE SUMMER FROCK v. . .-." One of the summer's best prospects is this frock made of heavy natural color pongee silk. The deep panels of green soutache braid make the gown wonderfully attractive. The collar of green chamois cloth is another added feature that gives the gown distinction. It is made on free and easy lines and could be used for sportswear if wanted. The hat is of rich brown chip with a goura fancy. Odd in Design. Stored away in the depths of an old trunk there may perhaps still be found a crocheted bedspread made by your grandmother. Today we are again crocheting bedspreads, only we combine it with linen. One seen recently was made of heavy linen sheeting and lace filet. Four triangular insets of filet lace were set in as corner-pieces to fit the corners of the bed, the upper ones being placed so that the entire triangle shows when the pillows are in place. The lower corners of the spread are cut out to fit the posts of a brass bed and the sides and one end are finished with a wide crocheted edging. The cut-out corners and the top were finished with a picot edge. An initial medallion, also in filet, is placed in the center of the spread. The Blouse. Blouses, contrary to predictions, are fashioned nine cases out of ten to be worn over the skirt and skirts for this type blouse must be fashioned for this particular purpose, for most skirts have odd belt arrangements, yokes, pockets, frills, etc., and all at the waistllno,

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BOY SCOUTS BEING

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Training in first aid work which all Boy Scouts receive is intended to enable them to be of assistance in any emergency. The photograph shows the New York section of the scouts engaged in a first aid drill in Central park.

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In the old church tower Hangs the bell; And above it on the vane. In the sunshine and the rain, Cut in gold St. Peter stands With the keys In his two hands, And all is well! In the old church tower Jiangs the bell; You can hear its great heart beat. Ah, loud, and mild, and sweet! As the parson says his prayer Over happy lovers there, While all is well. In the old church tower Hangs the boll, Deep and solemn. Hark! Again! Ah, what passion and what pain! With her hands upon her breast Some poor soul has gone to rest Where all, is well! In the old church tower Hangs the bell A quaint friend that seems to know All our joy and all our woe; It is glad when we are wed, It is sad when we are dead. And all is well! Thomas Bailey Aldrich. Infant Foods Are Tested On Little White Rodents To Determine Their Value It is not very widely known that infant foods are often tried out experimentally on baby white mice. The Scientific American Magazine states that in various laboratories throughout the country large numbers of white mice are fed exclusively on infant foods and infant milk modifications. The inference cannot be drawn from this that infant mice and human infants require the same foods; but growth or lack of growth in the mouse does indicate something of the growth promoting properties of the food used. Large numbers of the baby mice are fed on each food, so that the individual differences in the mice may be eliminated. The food is judged by the average growth of all the mice in the group. The baby mice in the experiments are as hygienicalljr cared for as are real babies. The wire cages in which they are kept are sterilized twice a week. In tbe bottom of each cage is a white crepe paper napkin to protect the little feet from the wires. A clean napkin is given at least once a day and often twice or three times. The infant food mixtures are given from three to five times a day from little glass dishes resembling individual salt dishes. The dishes are sterilized every time they are used. These aristocratic little pets must have distilled water to drink. This is furnished from a little glass bottle having a stopper with a glass tube, inverted in the top of the cage. A drop always hangs at the end of the glass tube and when a mouse is thirsty It climbs up and licks off the drop, when another drop immediately forms. In this way the purity of the water at all times is insured. To be sure, these pets are never bathed, but why should they need it? They have no chance to get dirty. It has been said: "It used to be thought a small boy's job to feed white mice, but now one needs .a college degree to undertake it." Massaging digestive Organs By Deep Breathing Is Best Physicians agree that massaging the abdominal organs is at best a delicate procedure requiring the skill of a professional in order to prevent more harm than good being done. And yet abdominal massage is recommended as a help or cure for various ills, especially for constipation. A method which is so gentle that no baneful effects could possibly result employs systematic deep breathing as the agent. The diaphragm and the muscles of the abdomen share in the work of respiration and at the same time press rhythmically upon the intestines. In order to increase the pressure so that massaging of the intestines results, it is only necessary to breathe more deeply than is customary and to keep it up rhythmically. The patient should lie face downward across the bed taking from five to seven deep breaths a minute. A pillow under the abdo-

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OULlHf MM Eggs from strong, vigorous, well handled, fully matured hens will produce far better chicks than those from weakly stock. The sooner eggs can be set after being laid the better. Three to ten days should be the limit; nor should they be chilled, overheated or roughly handled in the meantime. Every modern house contains or should contain a bathtub. So should every henhouse. The only difference is that one is to hold water and the other is to be filled with dust, fine ashes, etc. Always put the incubator in a place where the ventilation is good, the air pure and the temperature as even as possible, but not too cold. If the hens get in the habit of eating eggs, put a few china eggs on the floor of their pen and let the fowls pick at them. Sometimes that will discourage the egg-eaters somewhat. It is of no use to doctor fowls for colds or roup and then allow the same conditions which cause the colds and roup to continue, like drafty houses, germ-laden air and improper feeding. Some poultrymen claim to break up the egg-eating habit in fowls by blowing an egg, then filling the shell with mustard and cayenne pepper made into a thick paste with water. It is said that this cures the taste for eggs. When hens are crowded too closely in a poultry house, one sick bird will often give the germs to a dozen others in a single night and if the others are not very strong and healthy they will at once develop these germs into disease. Hens with colds frequently tuck their heads under their wings and a lot of mucus from their nostrils is deposited there. In such cases it should be thoroughly washed off with water containing some disinfectant and then wiped thoroughly dry. men serves to press the organs in so that the force of the breathing is felt more by the inclosed organs than by the stretching outer skin. Popular Science Monthly. Advice to the Married. The following advice to newly married couples Is given by Foster G. Iddings, police court judge of Sioux City, Iowa : "There's no house big enough to shelter two families. "Tod much mother-in-law is not a good thing for young couples. "Too much father-in-law has the same effect. "A wife should leave her husband to visit relatives at least two weeks every year. On her return she appreciates him better. "A husband should leave his wife at least two weeks each year. He apreciatesher more when he returns. "A young couple's place is by themselves. Their battles are their own. "Welcome your relatives as company, but don't permit more than one to come at a time." Around the World. United States tin can supply ; i u shnrf Mi J Oklahoma is increasing pecan YA nut growing. J l Denmark contains 7,706 regis- J & tered motorcycles. A ... ..w.. p - t Canada had 1,GS5 commercial V A . .. . , V A I allures last year. y ;Jj Argentina devotes 16,420,0S3 $ acres to wheat growing. $ JJ California produced in 1915 $ gold valued at $22,442,296. $ Costa Rica last year exported & 33.S53.707 pounds of coffee. v A He Knew. TA-tu; Willie W'linf orn "niör.ac rf artillery," pa? Papa Willis I think they must be the kind that the girl next door plays on tha piano.

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Moth er's Cook Book JHf Genius is talent set on fire by courage. Fidelity is simply daring to be true In small things as well as great. Courage is the standing army of the soul which keeps it from conquest, pillage and slavery. Henry Van Dyke. Cornmeal Dishes. Cornmeal is coming into its own. Because of the high price of flour, all housewives are looking for a substitute that can be used, occasionally, at least, for the more expensive wheat. One of the commonest and at the same time one of the best of foods is mush and milk, providing you use good, rich milk. This makes a good meal for Sunday night, but is not sufficiently sustaining for a man at hard work. The mush should be cooked long and well to have it wholesome. This same mush, put into a bread tin to mold, may be cut in slices and fried for breakfast and served with sirup, this makes a most sustaining dish. The hot mush may be mixed with any leftover chopped meat, well seasoned and molded. That may be fried as much, and is called scrapple. A little cornmeal added to a mixture of wheat or buckwheat flour for griddle cakes, improves them. Cornmeal may be used in place of flour to dip oysters before frying, or for rolling fish or sliced pork before frying. Corn Gems. Blend together two cupfuls of sweet milk with one egg, a pinch of salt, a tablespoonful of brown sugar, a tablespoonful of maple sirup, two tablespoonfuls of melted butter, one cupful of Indian meal and one cupful of wheat flour sifted with two teaspoonfuls of baking powder. When very light stir in a half cupful of finely chopped dates. Fill hot buttered gem pans three-quarters full and bake 30 minutes in a moderate oven. New England Bannocks. Scald eight heaping tablespoonfuls of meal (a cupful) with two cupfuls of boiling water, add four tablespoonfuls of flour, a fourth of a teaspoonful of soda, two well beaten eggs and sufficient cold milk to form a batter thick enough to drop by spoonfuls into hot fat. Fry to a golden brown and serve with maple sirup. Fruit Cake. Cream a half cupful of butter and a cupful of brown sugar, moistened with half a pint of strong coffee; add one cupful of molasses, a teaspoonful of allspice, one grated nutmeg, a teaspoonful of cinnamon, one well-beaten egg, three cupfuls of flour, sifted with two teaspoonfuls of baking powder and a cupful of cornmeal. Add any desired fruit and bake In a slow oven three-quarters of an hour. London's Dirty Windows. London is a city of dirty windows. This is especially true of the windows of the large office buildings and the hotels. Woman cleaners have been eraployed, but they have confined their work to the windows nearest the ground. Most of the work is at dangerous heights, and the insurance companies have refused to insure against accidents to woman window cleaners.' l ö' ö'ö"ö"öö"ö"ö"ö"ö"ö"ö"ö"ölTö"ö"ö"ö"ö"ö"öö"ö' I SOBER SECOND THOUGHT 3 By GEORGE MATTHEW ADAMS. The Impulses of our Nature do not Lead us, they Arouse us. And no man is fit to contend gloriously for a Fact or for a Cause until he is thoroughly Aroused. But to act upon FIRST Impulses is an unwise and most disastrous policy. Halter your Impulses with Sober Second Thought. You will never lose anything by carefully Thinking things over before you act. In fact, it is our Sober Second Thoughts that give us courage to carry through successfully what comes to us as necessary to be done. Cool heads are always wiser than hot heads. Halter your Impulses with Sober Second Thought. Most of the regrets of the world arise from important things done on Impulse, which if but introduced at once to Sober Second Thought, would not have been done at all. Many a man has resigned a good position on Impulse only to be left for months and years working up to where he left ofT. Sober Second Thought is a companion worth cultivating. Halter your Ira- ' pulses with Sober Second Thought. O d G orv and the Salute. j A DePauw university professor at Greencastle is telling a story on himself regarding the American flag. He says last year, when teaching at Culver Military academy, he happened in the ofiice of the flag officer one evening as the flag was being lowered and put away for the night. It was carried past him. All others saluted and took off their hats, while he stood as usual. The next day at dinner the flag officer was at his table. For the benefit of his teacher, the young officer gave his fellow-students a severe lecture on flag etiquette, never once mentioning the teacher for whose benefit the lecture was given, but It served its purpore and never again did the flag go unsaluted on such an occasion. Indianapolis News,

AN OPERATION AVERTED

Philadelphia, Pa, "One year ago I was very sick and I suffered with pain im my side and back until I nearly went crazy. I went to diflterentdoctors and they all said I had female trouble and wouid not get any relief until I would be operated on. I had suffered for four years before this time, but I kept getting worse the mor medicine I took. Every month lince I was & young girl I had suffered with cramps in my sides at periods and wi never regular. I saw your advertisement in Üie newspaper and the pictur of a woman who had been saved from. an operation and this picture was impressed on my mind. The doctor had given me only two more days to mak up my mind so I sent my husband to tht drug store at once for a bottle of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, and believe me, I soon noticed a change and when I had finished the third bottle I was cured and never felt better. I grant you the privilege to publish my letter and am only too glad to let other women know of my cure ' Mrs.THOS. McGONIGAL, 3432 Hartville Street, Phila., Pa. No Time to Save. "The time to save is when you're young." "That's all right; but a fellow doesn't earn anything till he gets well along and the nit costs more to live.' HEAL BABY RASHES That Itch, Burn and Torture With Cuticura Trial Free. A hot Cuticura Soap bath is soothinr to irritated skins when followed by a gentle application of Cuticura Ointment. Use Cuticura for every-day toilet preparations to prevent such troubles. After this treatment baby sleeps mother rests and healment follows. Free sample each by mail with Book. Address postcard, Cuticura, Dept. 1 Boston. Sold everywhere. Adv. He Couldn't Lose. One of the justices of the Supreme court tells o'f a young lawyer in the West who was trying his, first case before the late Justice Harlan. The youthful attorney had evidently conned his argument until he knew it by heart. Before he had consumed ten minutes in his oratorical effort the justice had decided the case in his favor and told him so. Despite this, the young lawyer5 would not cease. It seemed that he had attained such a momentum that he could not stop. Finally Justice Harlan leaned forward and in the politest of tones, said: "Mr. Smith, despite your arguments, the 'court has concluded to decide this case in your favor." Harper's Magazine. And the Girl Screamed. One of the best stories related by Samuel I. Levin concerns a couple of stage gymnasts, one of whom hung by his feet from a lofty trapeze, holding in his teeth a gag attached to a swivel which carried his partner by the belt. The lower man, in a horizontal position, face downward, swung round and round, but became so indifferent to his circumstances that his eye wandered over the hall. "Bill," he thoughtlessly remarked tc his bearer, "your girl's here." As thoughtlessly Bill said, "Where?" and as he opened his mouth lost hoW of the gag, precipitating his unhappy comrade many feet to the boards below. Perpetual. "What is the poetry of opinion?" "The kind that is always going froro one editor to another." WHAT! NO SLEEP LAST NIGHT? If coffee was the cause change to POSTUM and sleep! is a Reason ison" 1

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