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(DRESSING THE
1 SCHOOL GIRL
IT IS n lucky thins for the Ameri
can public that the women whose
intelligence raises them to the re
sponsibility of buying for the great de
partment stores and mail order bouses
iiire gifted in several directions. In
telligence, in the selection of good
styles is a necessary part of their
lequipnient. They cultivate a "sense
iof clothes" which is another way of
describing the art of dressing ap
propriately the tine art of dressing
correctly. It is true that they must
consider in their purchasing a follow
ing that will not buy their most taste
ful merchandise. P.ut when they make
their display and match up their
choice of clothes with that of other
Ibuyers, we may be fairly sure of see
ing the best things that money will
buy.
The arbiters of fashion insist that
!the schoolgirl should be dressed as a
'schoolgirl. That dress should occupy
in very small part of her time and at
tention while she is in school. That
iier clothes should be simple and in
conspicuous, and that utility and neat
ness are their important requisites. It
Negligees Odd
SUE who wanders through the
shops in search of negligees is
sure to be surprised. Interested
and tempted. Surprise will follow the
(discovery of the very "bio variety of
tftyles there Is to elm from. They
prove very interesting to the woman
.who has not experimented with them ;
,she has n chance to see herself in the
trousers and coats of the women of
nhe far East, Interpreted In silk, satin,
jreorgette and chlll'on, the trousers and
Jackets of Turkey, the kimonos of
,Japnn and coats of China, the long,
graceful draperies of the Empire pe
riod and styles from every quarter of
the globe.
As it happens the airiest and most
delicate of sheer fabrics are less fra
gile than they look. Crepe, georgette
and wide net top lace are used for
making many negligees, with the geor
gette in two plain colors and the lace
in cream color. A pretty specimen of
this particular style of negligee ap
pears in the picture above. u
Just as pretty as these colorful and
sheer affairs are coats of taffeta In gay
colors, more or less long, to be worn
ovor lacy petticoats. They are
trimmed with ruchlngs of ribbon or
of frayed taffeta. Very much the
goes without saying that they are at
tractive, for there is a charm about
the simple schoolgirl clothes that be
longs to them alone,
A tine example of. schoolgirl styles
for the coming spring is shown in the
picture given here, in which a cotton ;
voile with colored satin stripe makes '
a delightful dress for a junior miss, j
It has a pretty bodice with a shawl
collar edged with narrow lace, a vestee '
of the voile, three-quarters length ;
sleeves with turned back cuffs. The
plain skirt is gathered into the bodice
and a short tunic is suggested in it by
the simple means of a wide tuck set
in on a slope. A wide sash of the
voile with bow and ends at the back
finish up n dress in which the young
girl will look sweet when summer
comes. These pretty cottons, simply
made, have a freshness- and youthful
ness that belongs to nothing else. It
is best to copy such dresses just as
they are, for the things that make them
so pleasing to women of the finest i
taste are subtle things. Accept them, '
and do not presume to change them,
and Colorful
same character of negligee appears in
very line cotton crepes from Japan,
embroidered in silk lloss material
matching them in color; they are
something between a kimono and a
coat. Mandarin coats and silk kimonos,
gayly embroidered, hold their place
among the luxurious apparel that
blooms In the privacy of home.
Speaking of ribbons and laces
will naturally lead one to discuss
boudoir caps and camisoles. A very
handsome specimen of each of these
Is shown above and they are so well
pictured that it will not take long to
describe them. The cap is made of
chiffon, with pu4'ed crown. A shaped
and wired band is extended Into two
points over the earn
The camisole of wide lace has a
band of light ribbon about the top
veiled with chiffon gathered Into a
frill and similar bands over the shoul
ders. .Straps of the ribbon pointed at
the ends are applied to the lace, and
a narrow beading accommodates the
ribbon that draws It up at the waist
line, n s?
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PROBLEMS FACING
STRICKEN WORLD
Shall Chaos or Reconstruction
in Europe Follow the Great
World War?
NOW WEAK AND HEARTBROKEN
In Mourning and Poverty She Counts
Her Dead and Looks With Eyes of
Sadness Toward the Threat
ening Future.
Article II.
By FRANK COM ERFORD.
August 1, 1014, was the duy. On
that day Germany declared war on
Russia. The fire alarm rang around
the world. Peasants In the field
straightened their backs, listened and
looked Into the sun confused, wonder
ing. Flags were unfurled, bands
played, faces were white, tense and
serious. Men left their work and
talked in groups on the street corners.
Women laid down their brooms, put
aside their washing, and talked in
whispers; sad lights were in their
eyes. Children stopped playing. Some
thing had happened. Evil things were
ahead. August o and 4 found France
and Great Britain mobilizing their
sons. The torch was sweeping Eu
ropethe fire of death had started.
For four long years heart-sicken-Ing
years the world ran red. Men
waded through mud and blood, fought,
suffered, cursed, prayed, while back
home In the manless houses women
and children worked, cried, prayed
and waited. The world was mad.
Death poisoned every breath the
people breathed.
It is over now, It Is finished. A
stunned, numbed, weak, heartbroken
Europe Is again sitting in the sun of
peace. Europe is in dirty black rags.
The black is mourning, the rags are
poverty. Iler face is deeply lined
trenches made by suffering. Her eyes
are downcast and dead. Hope flutters
weakly in her breast; faith has faded
from her soul. Her home Is a house
of darkness. The fire on the hearth
has turned to cold gray ashes. The
kettle no longer sings, it moans. Her
mind is weary, her body is wasted.
Hunger has robbed her of her strength.
Her stnckingless, shoeless feet are
blue from the cold. Her lips wear
starvation color. Ice in the winter's
wind lashes her shivering, half-naked
body. She mumbles as she stares va
cantly into space she Is tired, so
tired. As I beheld her it seemed to
me that a face so troubled and sad
must never have known a smile.
I listened to her muttering. I found
that she was counting. Over and over
again she counted on her thin, tired,
worn hands she was counting her
dead.
Thinking of Her Loss.
She was thinking. Her eyes looked
over the hundreds of thousands of
square miles of war zone, slashed
with trenches, pitted and pockmarked
by shells. She sees where they fell.
No tears are In her eyes. Long ago
the hurt had reached the point where
tears dry up. Row upon row, line
upon line, mile upon mile, white
painted wooden crosses mark their
graves. For the most part they were
her youngest born, her most beloved,
who dug deep In the soil to sleep for
ever in the dark dugouts.
As they fell bleeding from steel and
lead, choking from gas, writhing In
agony from fire, they proved in the dy
ing word they spoke that they were,
mere boys, as they had shown In their
fighting that they were brave men. To
the popples they Intrusted their mes
sage, and the red popples remember
the last word of Europe's dying sons,
who went out into the great beyond
with this last word on their lips,
"Mother."
She has finished counting; an ache
shudders through her bent body. She
sighs and sobs, "Seven and a half mil
lion of my sons are dead."
Iler thoughts turn to the living, her
arms open to receive them, she holds
them to her heart. They have come,
but how?
Some with sightless eyes, doomed to
grope through the world In a never
ending darkness, a night without stars
or moon ; sunless, black, hopeless days,
and these, too, young men In the very
morning of their day.
Others sentenced to silence deaf
and dumb. Never again will she hear
their voices nor will they hear hers.
Still others In wheel chairs, dwarfed,
legless.
More hobbling on crutches, limping
on canes.
Some with empty sleeves.
Many with great scars, where once
was a hnndsome face.
She sees them all, her heart bleeds;
the twisted, the mangled, the torn.
She is counting them, the 12,610,017,
the wounded of the war.
War's Frightful Cost.
Her voice is husky, her hands are
tired, but she must count on. Six and
a half million of her sons were marked
"missing and prisoners" In the official
war score. Many of these have come
back to her, but she does not question
them she dare not. Their faces tell
of the unspeakable horrors they en
dured. She sees In their eyes a depth
of pain that Is unfnthomable. She Is
a mother Rhe knows.
The war Is over, but she Is not over
the war. Must she never stop count
ing? Is there no end to her losses?
The graveyards are crowded. Iler
thoughts turn to the dead who, while
they did not die in the war, died be
cause of the war. Those who went out
in battle left life in a burst of glory.
Others there were who fell in their
tracks exhaustion, broken hearts sent
them "west." She has not forgotten
how the home flank suffered. The stay-at-homes
were not all slackers. They
fought hunger and cold, bent their
backs beyond the straining point.
Worst of all, they waited. It Is esti
mated that 20,(KX),000 civilians died
from weakness, fatigue, strain, broken
hearts the horror of waiting de
stroyed resistance. These were the
underfed older men and women, the
scared, undernourished children. Is
there any wonder that Europe has a
death look in her eyes? Death has
been her morning thought, It has been
her night sob, and for four years made
up of months, weeks, days, hours,
minutes and seconds death has been
her Nemesis.
She Is now totaling. The figures are
appalling. They stagger her Imagina
tion. It Is easy to write them, Im
possible to understand their full mean
ing. The mind can't grasp It; the
world Is bewildered by the number. It
Is too stupendous, too horrible for un
derstanding. Think of it, seven and a
half million young men, for the most
part between the ages of eighteen and
thirty, the youth, the strength, the
spirit, the man power of Europe, dead
twenty million from civil life dead,
over twelve and a half million wound
ed. Who can measure this loss?
War brought death. It did more
it stopped birth. In the devastated re
gions of Relgium, France, Italy, Po
land, parts of Russia and the Balkan
countries, the birth rate fell to al
most nothing. In England and Wr.les
the birth rate in the last part of 1015
was 19.5, the lowest on record. Mal
lett calculated that the birth rate had
fallen 12 per cent in England and
Wales by 101G.
The Journal of Heredity quotes Sav
orgnan as having estimated that it will
take England at least ten years, Ger
many 12 years, Italy 33 years and
France 30 years to recuperate their
populations. These calculations by
Savorgnan were made before the fear
ful losses of the campaign of 1018.
A village in France, P.lerancourt,
tells what the war has done to the man
power of Europe. This village, which
Is In the Chateau Thierry-Soissons dis
trict, had a population of a thousand
people before the war. Its losses have
been tabulated. Twenty-six soldiers
from this village were killed In the
war. Ninety-seven of the villagers
died from war privations. The total
of 123 is the death toll of a village
of a thousand.
The figures I have quoted from the
calculations of Savorgnan and Mallett
were made before the war was finished.
Since the war, estimates have been
made, and these estimates show the
situation to be even worse. In France
I was told that 57 per cent of the men
between twenty and forty years were
listed as dead or incapacitated for
work. Further, that it would take
France over 70 years to recover her
normal population.
It is said that It will take Italy CO
years and England 23 years to regain
normality of population.
The human waste of the war is more
than sad memories. The loss of man
power makes a grave problem. It has
thrown out of balance the domestic
scheme of the world. It will be felt
for years. There are a great many
more young women than men. Home
life is bound to suffer. There will be
fewer marriages, fewer children. Sta
tistics only tell part of the story.
(Copyright, 1920. Western Newspaper Union)
European Tarantula.
An eminent authority in such mat
ters, in remarking that the tarantula
is a spider, says of that terrifying
creature that it is the Lycosa Taran
tula, a species of spider found In some
of the warmer parts of Italy and
Spain. When full grown It is about
the size of a chestnut and of a brown
color. Its bite was at one time sup
posed to be dangerous and to Induce
a kind of "dancing disease," but now
it is known not to be worse than the
sting of a common wasp.
It Is an old fable, extending to re
motest times, that the bite of this spi
der would produce epilepsy or a
strange dancing mania in its victims
and that this epilepsy or madness
could be relieved only by a particular
kind of music. The tarantula of Italy
and Spain and it is found In those
countries today has hairy legs with
black markings on them.
America's Debt to Jews.
Jews figured very prominently In the
discovery of America by Columbus ac
cording to Rabbi David Phlllpson of
Cincinnati. The first man who stepped
on the shore of the new world was the
Interpreter of the expedition, Luis de
Torres, a Jew. Bernal, the ship sur
geon, was also a Jew, as were several
members of the crew.
It Is also now said to be established
that the long-credited belief that Queen
Isabella pawned her Jewels to furnish
Columbus with the funds for the trip
Is a legend. These funds, It Is said,
were firolshed by two Jews, Luis de
Santangel and Gabriel Sanchez. A let
ter by Columbus to Sanchez Is still ex
tant, In which he gives some account
of his exploits.
Who Knows?
A friend of mine called upon a new
ly wedded pair and I happened to
drop In. The bride had been a widow.
My friend remarked to me, 'You In
troduced them to each other, didn't
you?" "Why, yes." I tactlessly blurt
ed, "I Introduced her to her first and
second husbands and who knows but
what I'll be the one to Introduce her
to her third one?" Exchange.
POULTRY
WT8 -
OAT SPROUTER FOR POULTRY
Successful Chicken Raisers Beginning
to Appreciate Value of Green
Feed In Winter.
All poultry raisers are beginning to
appreciate the value of sprouting oats
for hens In winter. I made a sprouter
of ray own as shown in the drawing,
6ays a writer in an exchange. It Is a
box 20 by 20 Inches and 30 Inches
high. It is large enough to supply 50
to 75 hens with sprouted oats every
other day. There are six drawers in
the box, each two Inches deep with
window screen for bottoms. A is a
funnel Into which warm water may be
poured into the square box B which
Is full of small holes in the bottom. I
put about one-half inch of oats In
each pan, then pour a gallon of warm
water through a funnel Into the pan B,
from which the water trickles down
through the oats In all the drawers
and finally collects In the lower pan
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Homemade Oat Sprouter.
C, which is water tight. D is a lamp
below the pan C and should be regu
lated so the oats in the lower drawer
will not get warmer than 85 or 00
degrees. The oats should be watered
each morning and night, with warm
water.
The four holes in the side furnish
ventilation for the lamp. In one
week the sprouts will be three to four
Inches high, and may be fed. Begin
with the lower drawer, and after feed
ing the contents refill with oats from
the pail E in which they have been
soaking for 24 hours. Move the other
drawers down and put the last one
filled on top. I find one feed every
other day to be enough.
HENS AS MORTGAGE LIFTERS
Feathered Tribe Would Prove as
Profitable as Hogs if Given
Same Attention.
With the same care, systematic at
tention and scientific feeding given the
poultry flocks as are given your hogs,
the feathered tribe would prove to be
as much of "mortgage-lifters" as the
four-footed beasts. Poultry will not
stand for neglect any more than your
live stock.
DISPOSE OF EARLY PULLETS
Fowls Hatched Last Winter Will Molt
About January First and Should
Be Marketed.
Pullets hatched In January and Feb
ruary are the ones that lay in the sum
mer nnd fall when the old hens are
molting. It will be well not to depend
on these to continue laying through
the winter, however, as they probably
will molt about the first of January
and should be disposed of at that time.
FIND MARKET FOR BROILERS
Good Thing May Be Made of Plump
Young Chicks Weighing Three
Quarters to a Pound.
If your farm Is near a city of large
hotels, restaurants and club bouses, a
good thing may be made of plump
young chicks, termed squab broilers.
At seven to eight weeks old when
weighing three-quarters to a pound
each they often bring as much as one
dollar a pair.
Don't feed the chickens in a dirty,
filthy place.
It pays to watch the flock closely in
the fall, winter and early spring.
Clean the floors of the hen houses
every few days; don't allow the trash
to accumulate.
Perhaps some hens and pullets
would be much better layers if they
could select their owners.
Leghorns at months, and the
larger breeds of Rocks and Reds at
8& months, will begin egg production.
It Is much more economical and re
sultful to feed u variety of feeds to
poultry, than It is to depend on one
or two grains.
Chemists find that eggs simply are
water, protein and ash and that more
thun one-huji the egg Is water, so b
Is apparent that sufllcleut water I
a necessary consideration.
pOEMNOTEC
"CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP"
IS CHILD'S LAXATIVE
Look at tongue! Remove poisona
from stomach, liver and
bowels.
Accept "California" Syrup of Figs
only look for the name California on
the package, then you are sure your
child Is having the best and most harm
less laxative or physic for the little
stomach, liver and bowels. Children
love its delicious fruity taste. Full
directions for child's dose on each bot
tle. Give It without fear.
Mother I You must say "California."
Adv.
Just before a man succeeds in get
ting all be wants in this world the un
dertaker gets busy with his person.
WHY DRUGGISTS RECOMMEND
SWAMP-ROOT
For many years druggists have watched
with much interest the remarkable record
m&intained by Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root,
the great kidney, liver and bladder medi
cine. It is a phyiicisn's prescription.
Swamp-Root is a strengthening medi
cine. It helps the kidneys, liver and blad
der do the work nature intended they
should do.
Swamp-Root has stood the test of years.
It is sold by all druggists on its merit
and it should help you. No other kidney
medicine has so many friends.
Be sure to get Swamp-Root and start
treatment at once.
However, if you wish first to test this
great preparation send ten cents to Dr.
Kilmer 4 Co., Binghamton, N. Y., for s
sample bottle. When writing be sure and
mention this paper. Adv.
Money makes tiie automobile go, and
the automobile makes the money go
and there you are.
Catarrh Cannot Be Cured
by LOCAL APPLICATIONS, as th7
cannot reach the seat of the disease.
Catarrh is a local disease greatly influ
enced by constitutional conditions. HALL'S
CATARRH MEDICINE will cure catarrh.
It Is taken internally and acts through
the Blood on the Mucous Surfaces of the
System. HALL'S CATARRH MEDICINE
Is composed ot some of the best tonics
known, combined with some of the best
blood purifiers. The perfect combination,
of the ingredients in HALL'S CATARRH
MEDICINE Is what produces such won
derful results In catarrhal conditions.
Druggists 75c. Testimonials free.
P. J. Cheney & Co., Props., Toledo, Ohio.
A company is known by the man
who dominates it.
Garfield Tea, taken regularly, will cor
rect both liver and kidney disorders. Adv.
Do not let your keeness overshad
ow your kindness.
WATCH
THE BIG 4
Stomach-Kidneya-Heart-Liver
Keep the vital organs healthy by
regularly taking the world's stand
ard remedy for kidney, liver,
bladder and uric acid troubles
COLD MEDAL
Tb National Remedy of Holland for
centuries and endorsed by Queen Wilhel
mina. At all druggists, three sizes.
Look for tho name Cold Modal xi oTry kei
ejad accept m imitaiioa
Often Caused by
Aold-Sfomaofi
Tea, Indeed, more often than you think.
Pecause ACID-STOMACH, starting with In.
diRestion, heartburn. belchinK, food-repeating,
bloat and saa, If not checked, will even
tually affect every vital orgnn of the body.
Severe, blinding, splitting headaches are.
therefore, of frequent occurrence as a result
of this upset condition.
Take EATON1C. It quickly banishes acld
atomach with Its sour bloat, pain and gas.
It aids digestion helps the stomach tret
full strength from every mouthful of food
you eat. Millions of people are miserable,
weak, sick and ailtntc because of ACID
BTOMACK. Poisons, created by partly di
gested food charKed with acid, are absorbed
Into the blood and distributed throughout
the entire system. This often causes rheu
matism, biliousness, cirrhosis of the liver,
heart trouble, ulcers and even cancer of
the stomach. It robs Its victims of their
health, undermines the strength of the
most vigorous.
If you want to get baek your physical
ana mental strength be full of vim and
vigor enjoy life and be happy, you must
get rid of your acid-stomach.
In EATONIC you will find the very help
you need and It's guaranteed. So get a biff
60o box from your druggist today If It
falls to please you, return It and he will
refund your money.
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