Essex County herald. [volume], August 26, 1920, Image 3

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RIBBONS GROW
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T IBBONS, which have so Ions been
V accessory to everything in ap
parel, have progressed until they enter
into the making of as many garments
us they have adorned. They are pres
ent in every sort of dress, from the
simplest street frock to the most com
plicated of evening gowns not merely
as accessories, hut as a part of the
garment, or as its trimming. At the
Mime time they flourish In accessories
mid in millinery as never before. The
now season will bring us tailored
.ioth.es with ribbon vests or with rib
bun ruches for trimming, or ribbon ap
plique and simulated embroideries, and
numberless ribbon giirnishlngs, and
iidornments on afternoon and evening
dresses promise an interesting theme,
of which we had the beginning in the
arly spring.
It plays a modest but indispensable
part in the handsome Afternoon dress
of which a picture appears here. This
model for the coming season Is made
of georgette crepe over a satin slip,
Wide Variety
TIILItE are two points on which
the creators of blouses and
smocks appear to" agree; they are ma
terials and the management of the
neckline. In everything else each ap
pears to be independent of the others,
but these two items are enough to give
the styles coherence. Voile, Initiate,
georgette provide the sheer materials;
crepe de chine, silk shirtings' and satin
answer for heavier ones, and in style
there is everything from very mun
nish, high-necked shirts with narrow
plaited . bosoms, high collars, long
sleeves, 1o elaborately embroidered
georgette affairs with short sleeves and
neck either round or having a collar.
AVith all this variety the blouses, espe
cially those of sheer cottons, are un
usually tasteful.
The hand-made blouse, in fine cot
tons, continues to do lienor to needle
women, holding first place as dainty
utility garment for dally wear, in the
estimation of the best dressed women.
These blouses are prettily decorated
with drawn work, hemstitching, fine
tucks, plaltlngs and trimmings of luce,
filet still holding its own as the beat
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and one enn imagine it In any of the
season's rich, dark colors, livened by
the Introduction of touches of vivid
color In the embroidery. A long tunic
Is box-plaited, divided at the sides
from waist to hem and rounded at the
bottom. The back portion overlaps the
front at each side and this feature in
the construction of the dress is brought
out by the ribbon border that finishes
the tunic about the edges. The bodice
is cut in the kimono style, with three-quarter-length
sleeves, also bordered
with rlblfbn. An embroidered panel at
the front of the bodice provides a pat
tern that is' repeated at the bottom of
the tunic. It is a large pattern and
mainly in the same color as the dress
and its ribbon border. '
The same ribbon is used for an in
genious and pretty girdle. The girdle
slips under the ribbon border at each
Ride and turns into two ilut loops that
make' an unexpected and attractive
finishing touch for the waistline.
in Blouses
choice in laces. Many of the tailorfl
blouses are long sleeved, as they
should be, but there are plenty of ex
ceptions to the rule In this matter. The
three-quarter length sleeve is a happy
compromise between the popular elbow
and the long sleeve. The best liked
collars are those tlt are high at the
back, with "V"-shaped opening at the
front. They are made of the same ma
terial as the blouse and trimmed to
correspond.
One of the new blouses, shown
above, emphasizes embroidery. The
front is extended into a peplum and is
covered with it. Since there is so
much of it In this position it is neces
sary to practice some reticence II the
rest of the blouse; therefore the
sleeves have none and are finished
with a binding. The round neck is al
lowed a very simple pattern outlining
its shape. The color contrasts are not
bold, but pleasing und soft.
Pacific Coast Is Excited Over Japanese
WASHINGTON. The Pacific const
again is becoming highly wrought
up over the silent, steady penetration
of that section of the country by the
Japanese, and intends to press reme
dial measures at the next session of
congress. The house committee on
Immigration has been investigating the
situation, holding hearings in Califor
nia and visiting the Japanese settle
ments, in preparation for action on
various pending bills ranging" all the
way from outright exclusion of Japa
nese to amendment of the Constitu
tion, withholding American citizenship
from American born Japanese.
Senator Phelan of California sees
Japan reaching out for domination of
the Pacific, and professes great fear
that unless Japan is halted the Uni
ted States will be worsted by the ori
ental power, not only in trade, but
in war.
Not Many Conscientious Objectors Left
FItTT-ONE conscientious objectors
are still being Jield in military
prisons and disciplinary barracks for
th'eir refusal to recognize and obey
military authority, according to a bul
letin Issued by the American Civil
Liberties union.
Most of the sentences these men
are serving will expire this year. Two
sentences will expire In 11)23 and one
In 102,1. A few will expire in 1021
nnd 1022.
These objectors are the remnant
of a total of some 0,000 out of 3,500,
000 men called to the colors who re
fused to perform military service. The
others accepted noncombatnnt service
or went on farms, or with. reconstruc
tion units.
Of those whose scruples prevented
them from rendering any service or
obedierice whatever, only forty-one re
main, ,and these could obtain their
liberty at any time, the union admits,
If they would forego their scruples
to the point of obeying the rules and
regulations and performing the duties
required of other prisoners.
The union claims that America is
the only country among those which
recognized conscientious objection to
active participation in war, which has
Taking No Chance on
O R'GHT THIS
I'LL TAKE
:e&SMiCME. Of
ANYBODY standing at the right spot
at, the right moment In the big
Union station in Washington one
night might have seen Representative
Ben Johnson of Kentucky performing
an odd chore.
It wouldn't have looked so funny If
Johnson were not so tall and of such
dignified appearance. He stood by the
big gate where most of the passengers
were coming from a train and every
few moments remarked, in a tone of
authority, to nobody In particular:
"Right this way, Mandy; I'll take
care of you."
Now, there wasn't anybody named
Mandy there, you understand, and ev
erybody wondered why a congressman
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Hardwood Scarce, Furniture Takes Jump
SCARCITY of high-grade hardwood
lumber and its increased cost have
largely contributed to the Increased
cost Of furniture, says the forest serv
ice of the United States department
of agriculture In a report to the senate
on timber depletion, prices, exports,
and ownership.
Higher lumber prices are multiplied
in retail furniture prices. An Increase
in raw material cost to the manufac
turer of ?3 adds 1) to ?10 to the retail
charge, and the purchaser actually
pays for the lumber in a piece of
furniture three or four times prewar
prices.
Other industries, such as those mak
ing veneer, handles, vehicles, and agri
cultural implements, which require
high-grade hardwoods have likewise
been seriously affected.
The history of all these industries
has been much the same, the report
states. They began In the northeast
where for many years locnl supplies
of timber were ample for their needs.
The waning of these supplies forced
the Industries westward, where they
found magnificent virgin hardwood
stands, and expanded rapidly. In the
last fifteen or twenty years they have
"Unless we take to heart the lessons
of history," says Senator Phelan, "we
will, by our lack of vigilance, permit
a foothold to be gained by these peo
ple which will ultimately not only de
feat us commercially in the carrying
trade, as they are fast doing, but mili
tarily in the next world war. Our
civilization is at stake."
"A Japanese colony under the Amer
ican flag is not compatible with the
growth of an American state," con
tinues Senator Phelan. "The soil of
California Is being absorbed by the
Japanese and legislation, state and
federal, is now being evoked to stem
the yellow tide. It is a race as well
as an economic problem.
"California refuses submissively to
permit Its native population to be
driven off the soil. If these people
want California let them take it, not
stealthily, by this process of economic
penetration, but let them fight for it.
California, unfortunately, is just as
much their tributary territory today
under our generous laws as though
they bad conquered it by the power
of arms. f
"The Japanese government looks af
ter its nationals throughout the world.
It can call on them wherever they
are. They are not released from al
legiance. Emperor worship Shinto-"
ism is their creed."
not long since released all men im
prisoned for this reason.
"These men," says the union's bulle
tin, referring to conscientious objec
tors still in military prisons In this
country, "are being released slowly as
their sentences expire, or by 'special
order' for reasons not explained by
the war department, which has no
consistent policy of dealing with con
scientious objectors and never had
any. All that can be said of the pres
ent policy is that the department will
not release before expiration of full
sentence men who refuse to work un
der military authority in prison.
"There is no prospect for 'general
amnesty.' Letters on 'specific cases
addressed to the secretary of war may
help In securing 'special orders' of
release."-
Not Getting Mandy
should be standing there saying over
and over again:
"Right this way, Mandy; Til take
care of you."
What sense was there to a man do
ing such a thing as that? After he
had said It many times Johnson went
away, but in a couple of hours he was
back again, repeating the same line,
with the same calm dignity as before.
People were puzzled. Yet it was
all simple enough.
The Johnsons had sent to Kentucky
for a cook, name of Mandy. They
knew her name, but that was all ;
they didn't even know for sure what
train would bring her. Rut, according
to reports, she was a wonderful cook
tho could play culinary selections on
a gas stove just by ear, producing
southern dishes of rare quality and
fragrance. She was too good a cook
to lose, and she was not accustomed
to finding street addresses iu strange
cities.
And that was the reason why the
dignified congressman went to all the
trains and cried out, every time he
saw an able-bodied colored woman:
"Right this way, Mandy; I'll take
care of you."
been forced to reach out both north
and south for timber, as the forests
along the Ohio river were exhausted.
At present, their sources of supply
are very largely the more remote and
Inaccessible parts of the Appalachian
mountains and the lower Mississippi
valley. When these forests are cut
out, no other extensive virgin hard
wood forests will be left for the indus
tries to draw on.
A demand for furniture In excess of
ttie normal capacity of the factories,
low stocks of hardwood lumber, great
ly decreased production, and the diffi
culty and uncertainty of obtaining
adequate supplies of material, have all
Injected a very large speculative ele
ment Into the furniture Industry,
Reliable Information
All American women know of the great success of
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound in restor
ing to health women who suffered from ailments pe
culiarto their sex, yet there are some who are skeptical
and do not realize that all that is claimed for it is
absolutely true if they did, our laboratory would not
be half large enough to supply the demand, though
today it is the largest in the country used for the
manufacture of one particular medicine.
The Facts contained In the following two letters should
prove of benefit to many women :
Buffalo, N. Y. " I suffered with
organic inflammation and displace
ment. Whoa lifting I had such paia
and bearing down that I was not
able to stand upland it hurt ma to
walk or go up or down stairs. I was
going to a doctor without any re
sults and ha said the safest thing
would be to have an operation. I
mot a lady who told mo sho had
three operations and was not well
until she took Lydia . Finkham's
Vegetable Compound.
I felt relief after takine two bottles
of Vegetable Compound and I kept
on with it until I was cured. I al
ways use Lydia B. Pinkham's Liver
Pills and tlioy are fine. Everything
used to turn sour on my stomach ana
the Liver Pills relieved that." Mrs.
A. Koqers, 6i)3 Targo Avenue,
Buffalo, N. Y.
The fact is, the Best
1 a nr Si-mi; 1 nnJiMhw'-rffl fii
LVD I A E.PINKHAM MEPICINjE CO.. LVNIH.MASS,
After Using.
The woman was the author of a
cookery book that had been published
at her request with wide margins and
occasionublank pages for notes and
additional recipes.
Often she had expressed a wish to
see an old copy of the book and find
to what use the blank spaces had
been put. One day In a second-hand
book store her husband unearthed an
old volume. Noticing thrit it hud been
annotated freely, he bought It. After
a day or two he said:
"How about the notes in that cook
ery book? Were they interesting?"
"No," she said curtly ; "they didn't
amount to anything."
When he got a chance he looked
through the book himself. Every note
the book contained was a remedy for
dyspepsia and kindred ailments!
Dallas News.
Forests to Pay Country's Expenses.
A scheme has been outlined for the
county of Otsego in New York by
which forests now existing and those
to be planted will pay the operating
expenses of the county in the near
future. Kiich of the twenty-four
townships in the county will under
take to plant 100 acres of trees and
the prolits of these tracts will soon
be sullicient to take care of the run
ning expenses of the county, so that
taxes will be lowered to the minimum
point.
Failings Ignored.
Mrs. Hodge How do you write ref
erences for your cooks?
Mrs. lliram Daly Oh, epitaph stylo.
Those Wags.
"You say the revolver , yon bought
had six chambers?''
"Six chambers "and n seller."
The High Price of Sugar
makes one welcome foods which
are rich in natural sweetness.
Grape
requires no added sweetening, for it contains
its own pure grain sugar, developed from wheat
and barley by twenty hours' baking.
Sprinkle Grape-Nuts over ripe fruit or berries
and you'll save sugar.
Sacramento, Ca'uf. " I had or
ganic trouble and had such terrible
pain and swelling in the lower part
of my side that i could not stand on
my feet or even lot the bed clothes
touch my side. I gave up my work
thinking I would not be able to go
back lor months. My mother ad
vised me to take Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound as it had saved
her life at one time, and it put me
in a wonderful condition in a couple
of weeks, so I can keep on working,
I work in a department store and
have to stand on my feet all day and
I do not have any more pains. I
surely recommend your Vegetable
Compound to all my friends and you
may use those facts as a testimon
ial." Bertha J. Pab&jui, Si'M U
St.. Sacramento, Calif.
Medicine for Women is
MISTAKEN IN HIS SURMISE
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Mr. Brown Somewhat Hasty In Blam
ing the Gramophone for Those
Unearthly Sounds.
Perfect peace reigned in tha
Browns' household. The head of tha
family, his day's work over, was read
ing, In blissful anticipation of the eve
ning meul which Mrs. Brown wasy
busy preparing In th kitchen.
The gentle stillness was suddenly
broken by eerie sounds, apparently
coming from the next house a weird
moaning, developing Into heart-rending
walls and harrowing shrieks.
Mr. Brown jumped up.
"It's Mrs. Wood's confounded gram
ophone playing Tostl's 'Good-by' "
he cried. "Lizzie" to his oldest
daughter "go and implore her to stop
It! Tell her I'm 111 tell her we're
all ill, anything you like, only maka
her leave olf!"
The child obediently hurried out,
and two minutes later came rushing
back.
"It's not Mrs. Wood's gramophone,
dad," she said. "It's the Murphy
down the street opening a tin of
corned beef!"
Easily Remedied.
"So the race wan called off because
there was not breeze enough to fill tha
yachts' sails."
"That was queer. With Sir Thomai
I.ipton spending $1,000,000 on the ef
fort to lift the Cup, he ought to ba
able to raise the wind."
It's queer bow two mm accidental
ly exchange umbrellas and both get
the worst of it.
Baboons are, with a few exceptions,
found only In Africa.
Nuts
the ready-cooked cereal