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mmmmmmmmmmmmmmwmmmmmm ft UK riA ift ??i"?f ' hen I am going to get some ex perts who know more about such things than I do, and they will pick out -for me the two that are the best. And to the two lucky ones or ar tistic ones, if you prefer I shall give bathing suits, modeled along your own ideas. Each suit will cost a maximum of $10. Doesn't the idea sound attractive? Remember what a lot of fun we had two years ago with the Easter hats and the keen competition there was last year to design a gown for Mrs. Vernon Castle? , (By the way, Mrs. Castle wore the gown in the first episode of "Patria.") This is going to be more fun. We all swim, -and we don't want to look dowdy on the beach. Watch for the first diagram Mon day. Get to work with it. Ability to draw is the least considered feature. Style and idea are the things. Some of the most attractive gowns last year were the work of people who didn't know the first thing about drawing. The last design will be printed Sat urday, April 21. All drawings must be in the offipe of The Day Book by 6 p. m., Saturday, April 28, and the suc cessful designs will be announced as sbon thereafter as possible. Address all resigns to the Fashion Editor, The Day Book, 500 S. Peoria St., Chicago, III. WELL, EASTER IS WITH US. Everybody dolls up and goes, to church. N Which reminds us. In India, what is it they call the churches? . Moslems ain't it? Oh, yeh. Well, 99 per cent of the congregation are men. That's funny. , Yep, all men. The. women all wearthe same kind of headdress. Ah! we catch on. o o TODAY IN ILLINOIS HISTORY April 7, 1840. Peath of Sen. Mo- noah Bostick, senator from Greene county. Mr. Bostick was in posses sion of an immense estate in Greene county and was one of the most be nevolent men tharever lived in the county. o o SMART TRIM IN MILLINERY IS MILITARY Military Models By Betty Brown The .placing of a feather or a flow er betrays the military origin of many ideas in spring millinery. The black suit hat by a "cupd" de signer has an iridescent coque feath er at the center of the front of the crown, ' while the flowered model made by this house has a wired spike of buds fastened at the same smart angle. The black suit hat is banded with cerise color satin; the flowered hat has a fancy gathered brim.