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m Then she sees me looking and says, 'Oh, I am so proud to think that all my boys are helping the old country. Won't I be pleased when they come back!' "Then she adds, 'You and I will just have to get along as best we can.' " Her late husband was a volunteer. "Wouldn't he have been proud to see them all march off!" she said to her daughter. Her case has been brought to the attention of wealthy people and the mother who would give seven sons to her country will doubtless be well cared for during their absence. o o BY AND ABOUT WOMEN Miss Anne Morgan, daughter of the late J. P. Morgan, seldom wears jew els, but when she took out an insur ance policy oii her personal gems recently she valued them at $7,000, 000. It was the largest policy ever issued t oa single woman. Mrs. Catherine Breshkovsky, known as "Baboushka," or grand mother to the Russians, has been or dered to some point on th eArctic cir cle,, after having been imprisoned at Irkutsk for trying to escape. She is 70 years years old and was sentenced to the life of a convict because of her anarchistic activities. Several years ago she made a lecture tour of the United States. DEEP GIRDLE NEWEST FASHION WRINKLE A TOOTHACHE CURE Despite all the scientists, supersti tion still picturesquely lingers in the English countryside. In Dorsetshire it is believed that verdigris is a cure for shingles, and daisies a cure for boils. The following is a local recipe for toothache: "You go to a young oak tree and put your arms around it and mark the place where your vingers mate. Then vet a zlit in the bark with your knife, put your left hand behind.your head and pull out zum hair behind your right ear and put it in the zlit of the bark, and you will never have the toothache again." J&$. vv4'? ' K -i Mflp The draped girdle reaching from hip line to base line marks this gown as one of the latest of the autumn models. The long tunic is another advanc ed note, and it will be noted that the underskirt of black satin is, like all the new skirts, short enough to show the ankle line. The gown itself is made of a smooth black and white check materiaL Kettles maybe thoroughly cleaned by boiling potato peelings in them. MmmtmmmmmmimttlA