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LITTLE BEAUTY CHATS
BY B1ASCHE EEiCOS
AX EVERYDAY FAULT
It is the everyday fault that is so
bard to correct. The senseless little
thing's that we do unconsciously are
the roost difficult to overcome.
Surely one of tho most common is
that of running- over the heels of the
shoes. For every fault there fla of
course a cause and an effect. The best
way to overcome the effect is of course
to remove the cause. Let us see what
these causes can be.
In the first place unromantic corns!
A. corn on the little toe will almit in
variably cause one to slop over on mat
side of the foot although by go doing,
one intensifies the pain.
Another cause, tight shoes.
A third cause, shoes that are too
loose. In fact, to sum It up, 111-fttUng
ehces.
A fourth case, any tendency to be
bow-legged. - - '
And a fifth cause, any tendency to
tesume sloppy attitudes.
As to removing the Brat cause, In an
early article I am going to rive some
good corn remedies. Watch for them.
-- As to ill-fitting- shoes, the remedy is
to use your brains while purchasing
shoes. Do riot sacrifice comfort to
vanity, and again, do not in striving
to be comfortable, go to the other ex
treme. If your trouble is the fourth, there
Is little you can do. r should advise
Ton in this case ib wear email steel
oles: These are little pieces of steel
that fit the part of the sole worn oft
and prevent it from wearing down any
further. They can be bought at any
choe store or shoemaker's.
And If it is Dure laziness of attitude
It rests with yourself to correct that.
I think if you etudy your reflection in
the mirror you will realize why it
seeds correcting.
Watch yourself walk before a mir
ror. Only constant care and real ear
nestness will - remedy this fault. No
FADS AND FASHIONS
' Many toques are trimmed with fur.
' If you are stout, do not wear the
wide belt.
Small hats are more fantastic than
eer. : .
Tulle sashes are finished with beaded
ends. -
Jet Is Increasingly used as the season
advances. ...
Lasts year's gown may be rejuven
ated by a fichu.
The gown of one color may have two
or three girdles.
Almost without exception suits are
trimmed with fur.
There Is a slash In almost every
3iirt worn by women.
For little girls the Russian blouse
dresses are in the lead.
The smartest tailored costumes em
phasize the belted coat.
Nearly everything in hats for little
girls is In mushroom shape.
Afternoon costumes are ' trimmed
with figured velvet in odd designs.
Collars and muffs are made of net
and - chifConj - combined with Jur. . , '
Lusterless materials axe the only
appropriate ones for deep mourning.
Amber beads are used to good pur
pose on many of the gowns.
Bright green and pink is the color
combination now favored by fashion.
Draped models fitting In loose lines
are rivaled by the belted style.
The influence of the Russian blouse
o nthe new suits Is . very strong. '
A touch of black Is always In place
to give point to a white garment.
Collar and coat cuffs In white may
toe mad of chamois cloth or peau de
sueda.
In mourning, simplicity should be
the keynote. When elaborate. It is
bad taste.
The placing of the sash Is Import
ant because it can make or mar the
figure.
Skirt lines are broken by clever
trimmings, drapery or application of
ornaments.
The picture hat has returned.' It
Is large and dashing and worn much
to one side.
Children's dresses are simple. We
have good lines instead of the fussy
frills.
The chiffon lace or net tunic lends
itself readily to making an old gown
look like new. -
The new coat suits may be plain
or fancy. The coat may be stort or
moderately long.
Whatever the shape of the hat, the
material is invariably velvet and the
color black.
The favorite steamer coats are of
white wool plush and chinchilla and
re lined with white satin.
Black leather bags are trimmed
with small jet beads, embroidered in
Intricate design in the leather.
The Turkish skirt dominates all
The Tonng lady across the way sa
any money ajroond town because she
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tice your friends and se how ugly a
posture run-down heels throw one in
Added to that, a slight curvature of
the spine ie likely to be a more serious
result.
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There are
five causes
; heels.
for run-over
others in walking suits -as well as
afternoon and evening gowns.
The separate skirt contrasting with
the jacket is a godsend to the women
who must be economical.
The smart corsage bouquet Is now
surrounded by a frill of tulle harmon
izing with the color of the gown.
Braided belts are used on many of
the latest suits, and sometimes the
braiding Is combined with heavy em
broidery. White ermine stoles are finished with
chenille fringe formed of lengths of
white chenille cord about four Inches
long. -
Theater bonnets are made of gold,
silver or copper lace and trimmed
with narrow bands of fur and bead
fringe.
Many blouses have simulated waist
coats of figured silk, brocaded velvet
or chiffon extending in points below
the waist line. . V
Scallous appear on many smart
gowns, and bindings of velvet or taf
feta or narrow pleatings of tulle are
the favored trimmings. '
- A vest or vestlette with an attached
collar that can be drawn over the
outside coat collar will give a suit a
different appearance.
Huge muffs of black of colored fox
have ruffles aboat the hands of wide
plai tings of cream or -pure white net
mounted over chiffon. .
The only kind of coat that seems to
be out of fashion is the one that ex
poses the blouse across the chest aad
revers as a finish,
Black suede shoes with French heels
and pointed toes are 4 embroidered
with silver beads across1 the toes and
lower parts of the instep. 4
The slender women Is .In her glory
this year. She can break her skirt
line with a joyful vengeance. The
ways are numerous and the effect
always good.
LADY PAGET GIVES
BIRTH TO A DAUGHTER
London, Nov. 19. Lady Victor Raget
gave tolrth to a laughter"yesterday at
Cumberland House, Kensington.
Lady "Victor Paget formerly was
Mies Olive May, well known as a Gai
ety actress.
She married Lord ( Victor Paget,
brother and heir presumptive of the
Marquis of-Anglesey, In January last.
A MAKER OF HEALTH
A good honest medicine like Foley
Kidney Pills gives health to many
families. Mrs. O. Palmer, 635 Willow
St., Green Bay, Wis., was seriously 111
with kidney and bladder trouble. Mr.
Palmer writes: "My wife is rapidly
recovering her health and "strength
dne solely to the use of Foley Kid
ney Pills." Hindle's drug store. -Adv.
ys she knows her father doesn't owe
overheard him say that he hadn't a
THE
PRINCIPALS IN WHITE HOUSE WEDDING
NOV. 25 AND ROOM WHERE IT WILL OCCUR
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Washington, Nov. 1 8 All Is In read
iness here for the much talked of
White House wedding in which Fran
cis B. Sayre, a New York lawyer, and
Miss Jessie Wilson, daughter of the
THE ARGUMENT AGAINST
HANGING MBS. WAKEFIELD
There has been much argument pro
and con as to the wisdom of hanging
Bessie Wakefield, who was accessory
to the killing of her husband, t The
argument against her execution 'seems
to be more fully and briefly present
ed in an editorial In the current is
sue of the ureenwica .tress. une
views expressed are doubtless those of
Norman Talcott, the humane and aCT
compllshed editor of The Farmer's
contemporary, and are as follows:
The Case of Bessie Wakefield,
On March 4, 1914, the State of Con
necticut will be treated to the spec
tacle of a woman being publicly mur
dered In the name of good govern
ment, civilization, hlgfe morals and
Christianity.
On that day she will toe seized, drag
ged from her cell at Wethersfleld, her
hands jtied behind her, her head cov
ered and she will be strangled to
death. "Hung by the neck until dead,"
as the law phrases it.
If she struggles and fights for her
life, as even a drowning kitten would
do, strong jailers, will grasp her, pin
her hands to her side, hush her fright
ened screams with a gag and drag her
to the gallows, where stifling with
horror and convulsed with agony, her
body, "made in the image of God,"
will be reduced to . carrion, and her
soul, blind with crime which was
doubtless bred of years of the environ
ment which society has prepared for
her, and probably perverted by an
heridltary taint, will be shot into the
outer darkness, or light, which men
call eternity.
Oh, it will be an elevating sight la
this year of Our Lord Nineteen Hun
dred and Fourteen. - This year wheS
we . travel in automobiles and air
ships, and converse across thousands'
of miles, and have hundreds of uni
versities and hundreds of thousands
of churches, but still murder women
judicially as three hundred years ago
did our ancestors, who rode in stage
coaches and believed in witchcraft.
We wish that every refined person,
every clergyman, every tender wo
man in the State were compelled to
witness that struggle as Bessie Wake
field is prepared for the gallows. We
wish that judge who pronounced the
sentence might be compelled to hold
her arms while the jailers tied her
hands and that he, personally, would
have to apply the gag as she fought
and cried for life. And we wish that
the governor of the state might have
to pull the rope at her execution. .
If that happened, we think there
might never thereafter be an execu
tion in4he State of Connecticut.
Bessie Wakefield murdered a man
her husband. We are not familiar
with the circumstances. They do not
matter. The blacker the crime, the
greater the proof of her abnormality,
her lack of proper perspective and un
derstanding.' Ignorant, uneducated,
perverted, laboring under a thousand
foul temptations, she killed her hus
band. Laboring under no such temptation,
In the clear shinln'g light of reason
and good surroundings, education,
modern civilization and in perfectly
told blood, the State of Connecticut
is to murder Bessie Wakefield. And
it offers a much less merciful death
than she. In her blindness and deprav
ity offered her victim. And it offers
her months of agonized waiting be
fore the final pull of the rope. ,
If any good could be accomplished
by this killing, it might be in a de
gree excusable. If the murdered hus
band could be brought back to life by
the process and If his litd were worth
more to society than her's, then we
might condone this public crime. But
we know that such is not the case.
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FARMER: NOVEMBER
fntrERsTfeooMt
president, will enact the leading roles.
The wedding occurs Nov. 26 In the
east room of the White House. Dr.
Grenfell, the well known medical mis
sionary worker of the desolate Labra
dor coast, will be the best man. This
from being what little use to society
she yet might be.
There is no moral or ethical or sci
entific law in the world that will up
hold this murder. If you take your
moral teaching from the Bible, It says:
"Thou Shalt Not Kill." It does not
say "It is wrong for one Individual
to kill another individual, and right
for a million and a half individuals
to kiy one individual." It simplv says,
"Thou Shalt Not Kill." It Is quite
positive in the statement. If you take
your teachings from modern science
it Is even more positive.
But unfortunately Bessie Wake
field's execution Is neither a matter
of morals nor of science. It is a mat
ter of the law. And that law was
made in the Middle Ages, a time of
burnings, torture rack, superstition,
Ignorance and hatred. And it has
survived all those years, because the
people have not had the. energy to
change it. "
There is no moral law, we - repeat,
that, gives any man or body of men
a right to punish others. t gives the
right to correct only.
The only excuse for executions is
that of expediency. If it is absolute
ly necessary for society to murder
murderers in order to protect itself,
then, and then only, is such murder
defensible. But the fact is that mur
der by the State only has the effect
of" inducing 'and promoting private
murder. It offers the example. It
sets the seal of public approval upon
killing as a means of righting wrong.
What if the State engaged in gamb
ling, theft, arson and other crime?
What would be the moral effect upon
the individual?
It is a proven fact that where exe-.
cutions have been most common, the
crime of murder has become more
common among individuals, hree
hundred years ago in England there
were scores of crimes punishable by
death, but the knowledge of the pen
alty did not stop people from com
mitting those crimes. Since the death
penalty was removed there has been
less instead of more crime.
In states and countries where 'there
is no capital punishment there- are no
more murders than in those where it
exists. In fact, there are only half
as many. For there one -nurder
means but one murder. Here it
means two the murder of the vic
tim and the murder of the murderer.
No, the death penalty is no deter
rant for murder. In practically ev
ery case the person who commits a
murder either expects to escape pun
ishment altogether or is in such a
state of mind that he does not con
sider consequences. We defy any one
to point to a murder, where tha crim
inal stopped to consider whether th
penalty was death or only imprison
ment for life. In fact, most free per
sons those not immediately faced by
death would say they preferred
death to life imprisonment. Think
of it yourself!
It is clear that capital punishment
lacks even the excuse of expediency.
People are coming to understand
that crime is of two sorts. One is
that bred by environment on perfect
ly normal persons and in such cases
is not the proper thing to improve the
environment that produced the crim
inal, and to try to cure him. We do
the same thing when bad environ
ment has caused typhoid fever. We
Improve the environment and apply
such remedies as we can to the in
fected person.
The other sort of crime Is that of
abnormal persons, those born with a
criminal tendency which is as much
of a hereditary taint as Inherited dis
ease or a crooked spine or red hair.
Our action toward such criminals
should be to put them where they can
do no harm, to study their cases and
see what we can learn in the way of
prevention.
We do not mean In this argument to
leave out the question of personal will
the power on the part of an Indi
vidual up to r certain point to resist
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19, 1913
will be the thirteenth wedding to oc
cur In the White House, but Miss Wil
son laughs at the suggestions of her
friends who remind her of the un
lucky number.
tain amount of that. But we can
never judge it the power of the will
or the strength of the' temptation. All
we 'can do Is to act for the greatest
good to both society and the Individ
ual. ,
There are certain strong arguments
in favor of imprisonment instead of
killing as a punishment for murder.
One Is that sometimes a man found
guilty later proves to be innocent. If
we have simply confined a man we can
set him at liberty when his innocence
is established. But if we have kttl
ed himVe cannot restore life.
Another is that a" murderer may
still be put to good use in the world if
allowed to live, while If 'killed his
possible usefulness is, of course, ,cut
off.
Here Is a case that illustrates this
point: Some years ago. In a Western
state a man was found guilty of mur
dering another. He was apparently
"No good." He- was the degenerate
son of a wealthy- family who had been
sent West on an allowance to get him
out of the way. He poisdned and rob
bed a man with whom he had been
travelling. ,
He was confined instead of being
executed. Later he developed tuber
culosis and as the prison fare was
not suited to consumptives, - he was
allowed to make little articles and
sell them that he might have money
to buy milk and other nourishing ar
ticles of food. Soon he taught others
to make useful things. Later he was
allowed to write letters to merchants
to Induce them to buy the articles.
And his letters were so convincing that
they not only brought returns, but led
to his being hired by a big firm to
write advertisements.
As a result of his work he has or
ganized an industry in the prison, and
a great deal of money is made which
is used to give proper treatment to
sick prisoners, to educate others, and
to prepare still others to go back into
the world as useful citizens after their
terms have expired. He earns consid
erable money himself, but he does not
keep It, for he is a "lifer." He turns
it over to the others, where It can do
the most good. In short, he has
been an Immense factor in the reform
of hundreds of men.
Shall we say that after all this mur
derer has not been an asset to tht
State which convicted him. What use
would his dead body have been?
But to return to Bessie Wakefield.
What have we to say about her exe
cution ? Remember, lt will not only
be a murder, but the murder of a wo
man. Why, even savage races do not
murder their women. They under
stand the great biological law which
decrees that destruction of women
means destruction of the race. If
three-quarters of the men in the world
were killed to-morrow, the race would
be replenished in a generation or two.
But if that proportion of women were
killed the race would probably die.
Recognizing this, practically all ra
ces have cared for their women and
in every way protected their lives.
From this knowledge, unconsciously
has grown our whole system of chiv
alry toward woir.en. Everywhere in
Jury to a woman is looked upon with
abhorrance.
But civilized law courts decree that
women shall be Judicially murdered.
The question as to whether or not
the State of Connecticut shall be dis
graced by the legal murder of a wo
man will now be largely up to Gov
ernor Baldwin the most influential
member of the Board of Pardons.
If he is what his enemies call him
a fossilized remnant of a past century,
a man whose head has become wood
en and his heart stone by the study
of law made by past and uncivilized
generations, to the exclusion of mod
ern scientific and human feeling
then he will refuse to act.
If he is the broad-minded, intelli
gent and enlightened statesman his
friends believe him to be, he will use
his prerogative and save to this mis
erable woman what little of life re- I
State of Connecticut Its name as a
civilized community.
QUEEN SENDS TRIBUTE
TO LADY STRATHCONA
London, JTov. 19 The funeral of
Lady Strathcona took place at High
gate Cemetery yesterday. The King
and Queen and Queen Alexandra and
the ' Duke and Duchess of Connaught
were represented at the memorial ser
vice at St. Mark's church, In North
Audley street.
There were many beautiful wreaths,
among them one from Queen Alexan
dra with this inscription: "To Dear
Lady Strathcona. A Sorrowing Tri
bute to the Memory of a Beloved
Wife and Companion of Sixty-five
Tears." .
WOMEN'S EGG STORE
DOES THRIVING TRADE
Orange.'N. J., Nov. 19 Determined
to force a reduction, in the soaring
cost of eggs to members and the gen
eral public, members of the House
wives' League of the Oranges opened
yesterday a store in Main street,
Orange, opposite the Military Com
mon. With women as clerks they sold
1,600 dozens of "No. 1 selected fresh,
fancy, candled eggs" to an enthusiastic
group of retail buyers.
The continuous line of buyers, rep
resenting wealthy as well as poor fam
ilies, eagerly so?ht to buy eggs at
thirty-three cents a dozen.
Birmingham, Alar. F. L. WlIHs, suf
fered greatly from asthma and bron
chitis. He writes: "I got no relief
until I took Foley's Honey and Tar
Compound. It entirely removed those
choking sensations, and never failed
to produce an easy and comfortable
condition of the throat and lungs."
Hindle's drug store. Adv.
MRS. VATABLE WINS
CONTEST OVER PEARL
New "Fork, Nov. 19. The $10,000
cream rose bauble for which Mrs. Jules
J. Vatable and Ludwig Nissen, Jew
eler, have been fighting before Supreme
Couurt Justice Donnelly for .many days
belongs to Mrs. Vatable, according to
the verdict of the Jury.
The pink pearl, which Mrs. Vatabla
bought in good faith, is not the fa
mous "pearl of sorrow" which, after a
journey around the world, came into
the hands of Niesen In 1907 only to be
stolen from him.
Nissen contended that the pearl
stolen from him had made a trip to
China and back in the company of
Edward J. Boeck, wno afterward went
to Sing Sing, and then had been sold
to Mrs. Vatable. She said it was not
the 'same Jewel and the jury backed
her up.
Mrs. Vatable, who ,was Elizabeth
Stokes .of New Tork and Tuxedo, cre
ated a" sensation the opening day of
the trial with a $35,000 Russian sable
coat which she wore to the court
room. Talkative Barber (about to lather)
-Do you mind shutting roui mouth,
sir?-' ; ' ; - - " '
j. Patient One-No, do you? London
Opinion.
Easy and Practical Suggestion
FOR
TiOflE DRESSMAKER
Crepe de chine and satin are com
bined in a number of unusually smart
frocks this season. .. The model pic-
DINNER GOWN.
For formal occasions this toilette in
crepe de chine and satin is ideal, be
cause it is exceedingly chic and at the
same time inexpensive. The touch of
embroidery on the vest jjives it an
air of exclusivcness found in all of the
costly models of the season.
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DOCTOR CONFESSES TO
KILLING SUPPOSED RIVAL ' I
Kansas City, Mo., Nov. 19. 'Tv
done It," said Dr. W. T. Elam, a St
Joseph Mo.) physician, calmly, walk
ing up to John T. Glynn, a detective,
and V. D. Fouseeau, a lawyer, in the
lobby of Hotel Baltimore yomerdar af
ternoon at 3 o'clock.
"Done what?" asked Glynn.
"I've shot him," -was the reply.
. The two men rushed upstairs to the
room of Putnam Cramer, of Chleasro.
He lav on the floor dead, a builer-
wound Just under sis heart. Cramer
was an advertising agent for an East
ern magazine. Ho came to Kana
City with Rousseau, a cousin, to meet
Elam, who had accused him of paying;
too much attention to his wife.
He had come at the suggestion of
Glynn to explain to Dr. Elam that
there had been nothing improper In
their conduct. While Dr. Elam wa
being taken to the police station th
detective related the events that led
up to the tragedy.
Three months ago, he said, while In
his office Dr. Elam overheard on an
extension telephone a message read by
a telegraph company to Mrs. Elan.
who was in an outer office-
MORE BOTTLES SOLD EACH TEAR
It Is easy to understand why an In
creasing number of bottles of Foley's
Honey and Tar Compound Is sol-i
yearly. Thos. Verran, 286 Edward
Street, Houghton, Mich., gives an ex
cellent reason when he writes: "Fo
ley's Honey and Tar Compound has
always proven an effective remedy,
quickly relieving tickling In the
throat, and stopping the cough with
no bad after effects. Hindle'a dras
store. Adv.
RHODES SCHOLARS ARE
BARRED AS ATHLETES ;
London, Nov. 19. The Oxford XTni-'
verslty Athletic club has passed a res
olution prohibiting the competition Ira
university sports, as distinct from col
lege sports, of competitors who r
more than twenty-four ywars old.
Presumably this clause will have th
effect of preventing Rhodes scholar
of more than twenty-four, and most of
them are above that age, from compet
ing in university sports.
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Fool Acllo mi Uhtm
How do you expect to take the patnaj
and aches oat of the muscles of th ttrt. I
or legs, nnless you can reach the affieted I
spot? PANG ALA Y, which is known to-
day as the greatest . preparation rrrr j
made to relieve aches and pains of aJj
kinds has .a truly magical effect npoir
tired, sore, aching, red and Inflamod tt.
If you walk a great deal, if yoa standi
on yonr feet all day long. If yon fcav;
cramps In the legs, if yonr to distr-wai
you, just get a 25c tube of PANG ALA Y. :
squeeze a little out and rob it thorowKhlv '
into your feet and It goes right tbronrSi !
the skin and stops the pain instantir. ;
Do this , at ntgbl and see howyou fl :
in the morning. At any dmf store or."
Curts Chemical Company, 117 Eaut 24tt
street. New York City. -
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THE
tured here will find instant favor w
mong women in search of the truly
-chic in afternoon toilettes. It is work- !
ed ont in two shades of grey, the dif- :
ference in the colors resulting from
the contrast of the materials rather
than any decided variety of shading.
The panelette set into the front of
the skirt, the vest and sleeves are of
satin. Sometimes the sleeves are made
of chiffon, veiled over net to make
them as delicate as possible. A bow
of ribbon holds up the drapery of U19
skirt .and there are oddly-shaped bat
tons 'of the velvet for the skirt a&4
bodice trimming. Beyond a tiny vmet
of embroidered braid and a ruchir.g :
of soft net the model boasts no other
trimming.
To make, it requires 4 yirds of 44
inch crepe de chine, 2-yards of 27-inch
satin, yi yard of embroidered brail .
and a yards of ruched net. The neck ;
may be cut square, round or V-shaped. .
In making the waist, the applied
front deserves a special word. There
will be no trouble over the other partj,
the lining, and the sleeves being very
simple. ( After the outside is put to
gether, join the applied front and bade
as notched. Lap applied front on back,
large "O" perforations at lower edge
even. Gather lower edges bctweeaj
double "TT" perforations and twa
inches above. Sew fancy collar to
neck edge as notched. Arrange '
waist, center-backs and lower ed-a
even, bringing large "O" perforation
at lower edge to under-arm seam, and
bring front edge to large "O" perfora
tions at lower edge of under-arm seam,
and bring front edge to large "O"
perforation i,n lining front. Large "O"
perforations indicate center-front of
peplum. Close back seam, ew to low
er edge of waist, centers even.
The more decided the contrast t
trimming the waist, the more fashion
able it will be. Nothing exceeds m
attractiveness bindings of black satia
for the waist and sleeves.
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