Essex County herald. [volume], April 07, 1921, Image 2

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TOMORROW'S MODES t
IN TAFFETA DRESSES
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THE directoiro, late eighteenth
century and certain Spanish In
fluences in t lie styles, are all disput
ing tlu claims of the straight-line or
chemise dress, to pre-eminence. The
best American and French creators of
costumes appreciate the adaptability
in talletas and organdies, to bouffant
skirts, and the charm of a flavor of
quaintness in the silhouette that is too
attractive to he ignored. Therefore,
in the passing show of spring styles,
among those present, and present in
coiisiderahle numbers, there are such
uprightly dresses as are pictured here.
The frock at the left includes a
tunic among its assets, over si much
narrower .underskirt a plain and in
conspicuous affair that plays only a
small part in the composition of the
dress. The tunic and bodice divide
honors in points of interest. Py means
of cords about the hips and at the
bottom the tunic achieves a hoop-skirt
effect, and it is decorated with flat
puffs of the taffeta. The peasant
waist also employs these puff's as a
Spring Hats Are Tempting
IT SEEMS that this spring has fav
ored us with a greater wealth of
beautiful millinery than can be re
called for many years. So many new
materials have been added to those
that have been long established as be
longing to beadwear, that there is an
unending variety in the displays: lines
nre graceful, colors pleasing. One
makes a little journey in quest of
new hats with a disposition to buy
more than are needed, for they are as
alluring as fairy tales that never
grow tiresome, with new and unex
pected chapters added to those we are
already devoted to. It Is consoling to
reflect that prices are not quite so high
as they were n year ago but they are
still high enough, and this Is no fair.?
tale. Materials and other costs of
production have not yet reached a
pre-war level, but they are settling.
In tiie meantime whatever else fate
may deny her, every woman Is en
titled to a new spring hat. She will
find among the displays a few at least,
and perhaps many, that enhance her
good looks, for there are shapes ior
every face and type and colors that
are subtly flattering. It Is worth while
to look carefully for them.
A group of summer hats Is shown
here In shapes that have proved very
generally becoming. At the top a
round-crowned, rolling brimmed Rtraw
finish for the collar. The introduction
of u dainty vestee of lace and nar
row velvet ribbon laced across the
front are the means by which the
bodice rivals the tunic.
A dark and a light color are used to
make the sprightly dress at the right,
and ribbon plays a star role in its
composition. Taffeta ribbon with a
fancy edge makes t lie side plaitings
that are emphasized on the tunic by
placing them on a light-colored back
ground! which might he of crepe de
chine. The slip-on bodice, with double
frill of plaited ribbon about the waist,
has short sleeves lengthened by means
of the plaited ribbon and finished with
n tie of narrow ribbon. The same
ribbon forms a girdle with a half
wreath of little blossoms set across
the front. Nothing more original or
prettier lias made its appearance so
far than this useful frock, but it has
many competitors in a spring that la
rich in its variety of attractive taffetas.
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hat Is very artfully curved as to Its
brim and handsomely embroidered on
the crown. It features a large orna
mental pin as a decoration and Is in
tended to spend its days In the com
pany of an equally classy veil, having
Irregular dots scattered over a fine,
but open mesh. Just below it at the
left a lovely leghorn effaces Its upper
brim and crown In favor of strips of
ribbon frayed at the ends and droop
ing over the brim's edge. It is a model
that speaks the language of youth. At
the right a matronly hat suggests the
Napoleonic era In shape. It Is of
stYaw with embroidered flowers
strewn over It, and a wide ribbon
drops over the top and sides. At the
left a brilliant hat of satin and
highly lustrous braid suggests a
coronet and is a stately affair suited
to many ages. Crepe do chine and
ribbon make the elegant lint that
comes last In the group, although It Is
the brightest stnr In this galaxy. The
faille ribbon so cleverly used to form
the brim Is In a 'darker color than the
crepe do chine crown. A very hand
some tassel clings to the crown.
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A Loving Cup
By MARTHA M. WILLIAMS
US), mil, by McClure Newspaper Syndicate.)
Mrs. Gleeson sat down wlth a bang.
Few women are equal to that, but she
was, at many points, out of common.
Whatever she did gave an Impression
of noise and finality. Her husband
was certainly of those classed as
ciphers on the wrong side of signifi
cant figures.
She was tired dead tired yet sat
bolt upright, going on with the knit
ting that had occupied her fingers
while she made the tour of orchard,
garden and barnyard. She had found
them, each and seyeral, deserted. That
was sufliciently aggravating, but not
quite the worst. The Denton boy had
fetched a scrawl from, her absent hus
band : "Caught on jury dunno when
I'll be home." Considering that it
was mid-October and fine sunshiny
weather, with a slue of hard work ac
cumulating, it is plain the lady had
reason to be nngry.
Now, to be very angry and have
nobody to quarrel with, breeds a par
lous state of mind. Had Jimmy Hand
known the situation he would have
realized the fact and waited. Instead
he burst In, the incarnation of happy
love, crying joyously : "Miss Sue, Nan
says Yes, and Granny says Yes now
you make it unanimous we both
know good old Pete don't count."
"Indeed! Who says so?" Mrs. Glee
son asked in her most blatant voice.
It ought to have warned Jimmy but
he was fairly drunken with happiness,
so only giggled: "Why, nobody! I
found that out by my lone self about
the day I cut eye teeth."
"So. Well, you're due to find out
something else," Mrs. Gleeson snapped.
"It is that we'd rather see our Nancy
dead than married to a horse jockey
and a gambler Stephen and me."
"As I'm neither, that has nothing to
do with the case," Jimmy flung back,
flushing deeply.
"No. With everything you've got or,
four hoofs showing at that fool county
fair and you yourself to ride there
She Began to Understand.
for money rliis afternoon?" Mrs. Glee
son blazed out.
"And you the kingpin of it all !
That's the reason everybody's work
is going undone so you shiftless,
thriftless wasters can have your sport.
Sport! Heavenly masters ! What sport
is It to turn what ought to he decent
hard-working folks Into an Imitation
circus !"
"Sorry you tnke it this way, Miss
Sue," Jimmy said humbly, "but we'll
work double turn, nil of us next week
to catch up for our play-time. If
only you'd go once yourself I think
you'd understand "
"When I waste time and money
that way " Mrs. Gleeson began, ul
inost apoplectic.
"But you ought to use your exhibi
tor's pass here it Is," Jimmy inter
rupted, thrusting a card into her hand.
"Don't nsk how you came by it go
see for yourself. It will pay you in
several ways."
With that he dashed away, leaving
her quite speechless for a minute.
She flung down the card, but took it
up almost instnntly, pursing her Hps,
heT eyes speculative. She began to'
understand certain gaps In the larm
stock, the disappearance of her fine
saddle mare and colt. Then Stephen's
staying away all night this was Sat
urday In a flash It came to her that
courts usually adjourned over the
week-end, even without a fair.
She had been fooled, tricked the
farm hands had gone with the stock
Nan and Granny would be there to see
them, nlso to see Jimmy win first In
the riding ring. Suddenly her molten
anger turned solid she would go and
confront the tricksters confound them
before the world, and so avenge the
Insult she wus suffering.
Around one o'clock that afternoon,
Mack-gowned nnd heavily veiled, she
parked her sedan far down the line,
nnd, after securing, made her way un
obtrusively through the crowd. In all
her life she had never moved so easily,
so silently it amazed her to find how
very smooth was such progress. Way
was mnde for her sympathetically
beside the show ring where cattle were
being Judged, more than one program
was offered her by friendly strange
bands. Looking through one of them
behind her ampfe veil she saw her
own name more than once. And even
as she scanned the lists the marshal
shouted loudly : "General purpose
cow, any breed ; first prixe, Mrs. Susan
Gleeson."
In spite of herself she smiled, as
equally In spite of herself, half an
hour later, she frowned when her pet
Jersey heifer, the apple of her eye,
won only honorable mention. She
thought she saw Stephen at the far
side shaking bis head, but without
waiting to make sure, she slipped
away to the grand stand, already fair
ly crowded, as the horses were coming
on.
Here she had to raise her veil ; how
ever, she held It In both hands, mak
ing a shield of It for her face. A
saddle ring was on aa her own Trlx
went by to baiter, with black Moses
lending her gently. The creature half
turned her head and whinnied softly
not all the veils nor all the crowds
could hide from her the mistress she
loved so well. And at the whinny
something seemed to melt within her
mistress all the rage and hate she
had been cherishing became folly of
the worst. She flung up Iter veil nnd
leaned forward, one hand on the rail
and shed tears of joy when Trix
won the blue. Hut to make up for
that, the colt she loved even better
was unplaced, partly because of bad
ring manners. After that she dared
not wait for the trots, the riding
ring alone as she was, she did not
care to risk the crush of the late
boniing crowd.
It was later than usual. Around 10
o'clock Stephen came in, his air a
cross betwixt a victorious fighting
cock and a man with murder in his
soul. Supper; lie Wanted none in
fact, he bad stopped to see Nan and
Granny, also he wouldn't trouble her,
not for the world, and he had seen to
everything about the place before com
ing, so bed was the thing for them
both and a late rising tomorrow.
"Court held mighty late, didn't it?"
Mrs. Gleeson asked maliciously. Ste
phen looked blank, then smiled fool
ishly, saying, "Jurymen are the ob
stiuutest lot." Whereat his wife
smiled a twWed smile, retorting:
"Same as married men, I reckon."
Then trying to speak sourly: "IMd
that scallawag Jimmy Hand win the
silver cup?"
"Why. how should I know?" Ste
phen nsked aghast.
"Because you stayed to see," his
wife countered, running on quickly.
"Stephen, I ain't mad at you for but
one tiling. 1 expect you to lie to me
now and then all married men do
It but I hope they ain't quite so
clumsy as you "
"Why, Susan; how you talk," Ste
phen began feebly. Then he stopped
short. Susan was laughing as he had
not seen her laugh since the day he
married her. "You you must a been
there yet you couldn't!" he went 'on
jerkily.
She wiped her eyes nnd nodded,
saying: "I was there went all by
myself to spy out evil nnd found
nothing but good. Folks learn how to
he kinder nnd friendlier for getting
together and nobody worse for look
ing at good dumb beasts. Even they
seemd to feel proud of themselves.
Maybe Crumple Horn wasn't set up
over her blue ribbon, but I know Trix
was nearly as much as I was. Now,
tell me quick, did Jimmy Hand give
that cup to Nancy?"
"No!" Stephen answered with a
crafty smile. "You see, it's a loving
cup, and they are coining tomorrow
to bring it to you."
Then and there the ice truly broke
up. Mrs. Gleeson felt like crying.
Instead she said briskly: "After I
abused him like a pickpocket. Well,
1 reckon this is a new sort of fire
coals to heap on my head. Rut I'll
leave It to Nancy to pay him for It."
"Well you may," said Stephen, with
a broad grin.
TEMPLES IN DEEP JUNGLES
Burmese Buildings So Ancient They
Seem to Have Been Forgotten
by Father Time.
In the heart of the jungle in Bur
ma, where the tiger nnd the lizard
keep guard, and herds of wild ele
phants roam smashing through the
undergrowth you sometimes come
upon sights that make you doubt you
are on earth. Yon may break through
cordons of vine and thorn and stum
ble upon crumbling temples, ancient
of days, so ancient as time goes in
the moist tropics that neighboring
villagers cannot tell you who built
them there nor when. Some are vegetation-covered
heaps of rounded
bricks; some preserve the changeless
traditional form ; bell-shaped, with
lofty pinnacle surmounting a basal
tower tottering, but untumbled. No
trace of road may lead to them, no
remains of old villages nearby.
"Old, unhappy, far-off things, and
battles long ago" may have devastated
their sites and driven their people
like chaff before the storm. Once
their spires were surmounted by glit
tering caps of purest gold; their cor
ners watched over by idols of Jeweled
eyes and awesome mien; carving re
lieved their snow-white slopes now,
only romance hovers there, romance
and the gray ape. Christian Science
Monitor.
Chinese Education.
In Chinese schools, just before the
noonday recess, the teacher writes a
sentiment, a proverb or a proposition
on a slip of red paper and pastes It on
the door. Each boy as he goes out
reads the lines, and In the afternoon
gives to the teacher another line
wlrlch will, with the first, make a
couplet.
NATIONAL CAPITAL
g AFFAIRS M
No U. S. Rights Have Been Surrendered
WASHINGTON. No American rights
have been surrendered because of
the war and none of them will be
surrendered. This tersely expresses
the bnrts of the Harding foreign policy
as outlined today by an authoritative
official of the new administration.
Although no positive assertion was
made, it was clearly indicated that at
the proper time the United States
would have an influential spokesman
to present jts cause before the league
nnd to stand rigidly for America's
claim that it aided to bring about the
victory over Germany and will not sur
render any American rights protected
by that victory.
Fifty Thousand Jobs
UPWARDS of 50,000 appointments
to public offices, carrying salaries
aggregating more than $100,000,000 a
year, are to be made by President
Harding. Some of these have been
nurtle, many others will be announced
during the next few months, while
still others will be made as the terms
of present Democratic otliceholders ex
pire. The first fruits from the shaking
of the official "plum" tree were cabi
net officers, whose salaries are $12,000
a year each. Others to come include
nearly a dozen ambassadors, whose'
salaries are $17,500 each ; many minis
ters at $10,000 each ; assistant secre
taries, federal judges, attorneys and
marshals, customs collectors, members
of uriou8 government boards and
commissions and postmasters by the
thousands.
In contrast to the huge patronage
roll of Mr. Harding are the appointive
perquisites of Vice President Coolidge,
whose immediate appointments com
prise only his secretary, clerk, page
boy and a private telegraph operator.
Their salaries total $7,700 a year. The
vice president himself receives $12,000.
Among appointments are seven
members of the shipping board at
$12,000 each ; two members of the in
terstate commerce commission at $12,
000 each ; five members of the federal
reserve board at $12,000 each ; three
members of the tariff commission at
$7,500 each ; two members of the fed
eral trade commission at $10,000 each;
some of the nine members of the rail-
Honoring the Soldier "Unknown Dead"
HONORS to the "Unknown Dead," as
In England and France seem to
have touched the American heart.
Anyway, the American government Is
to have a hand in the British and
French ceremonies. It will bestow the
congressional medal of honor upon the
two unknown heroes recently buried
with imposing ceremonies across the
sea. The bill as it passed the house
was as follows :
"A bill (II. R. 16076) authorizing be
stowal upon the unknown, unidentified
Brltlsh'soldler buried In Westminster
Abbey and the unknown, unidentified
French soldier burled In the Arc de
Trlomphe of the congressional medal
of honor.
"Whereas Great Britain and France,
two of the allies of the United States
Army Fliers Eager
ARMY aviators are eager to fight a
real duel with the navy. While
admirals and generals have been ad
vancing and disputing claims that the
airplane Is far superior to the battle
ship as a war Aveapon, army pilots
have flooded the office of the air serv
ice director with pleas that the mat
ter be settled under real war condi
tions. They have been all wrought up since
Josephus Daniels, then secretary of
the navy, offered to stand bareheaded
on a deck of a battleship and let
Brigadier General Mitchell, head of
the air service In the war, take a
crack at him with a bombing airplane.
Lieut. C. C. Moseley, victorious pilot
In the recent airplane race at Mlneola
field for the Pulitzer trophy, would be
"tickled pink" at the opportunity of
a real fight with the navy gunners.
"I firmly believe," lie wrote his chief,
"that a bunch of those gobs would
have about as much chance of hitting
one of us, especially If the old bat
tleship were In motion, as the prover
bial snowball."
When the time comes, it was de
clared, the United States will be found
demanding: Itecognition of a right to
a cable base on the Island of Yap, a
right now being contested by Japan
which has the mandate over Yap.
The right to oil privileges in Meso
potamia extended to nations afliliateii
with the League of Nations, a right
contested by Great Britain.
The spokesman for the administra
tion today said It would not be the
policy of the administration to be at
all flamboyant or boastful or belliger
ent In the handling of foreign prob
lems growing out of the war and sub
sequent treaty negotiations. But this
much he made plain: The rights of
the United States In world affairs ex
ist today right here just as they ex
isted on the day of the armistice.
No one has surrendered any of these
rights; no one had any authority to
surrender such rights.
The rights of the United States could
be altered or curtailed only through a
treaty properly negotiated and rati
fied; so far as the United States is
concerned there Is no such treaty.
on the Plum . Tree
road labor board at $10,000, and four
members of the federal farm loan
board at $10,000 each.
Four of the nine Supreme court jus
tices also may be appointed' by Presi
dent Harding. Chief Justice White and
Associate Justices McKenna, Holmes
and Day now are eligible, by both age
and length of service, to voluntary re
tirement The salary of the chief jus
tice is $ir,Ooo, and that of associate
justices $14,500.
Postmasters comprise the bulk of
presidential patronage. There are
nearly 50,000 postmasterships remain
ing In the presidential class, although
Mr, Wilson placed many in the civil
service.
In various executive branches of the
government the Department of Justice
leads in patronace, with a roll of
about $130,000. including a solicitor
general at $10,000, one assistant to the
attorney general at $0,000 and seven
other assistants at $7,500.
In the Treasury department the prin
cipal plums are treasurer at $8,000
and the commissioner of internal reve
nue at $10,000.
In the World war, have lately done
honor to the unknown dead of their
armies by placing with fitting cere
mony the body of an unknown, uniden
tified soldier, respectively in West
minster Abbey and In the Arc de Tri
omphe; and
"Whereas, animated by the same
spirit of comradeship In which we of
the American forces fought alongside
these allies, we desire to add whatever
we can to the Imperishable glory won
by the deeds of our allies and com
memorated in part by this tribute to
their unknown dead : Now, therefore,
"Be it enacted, etc.. That the Presi
dent of the United States be, and he
hereby Is, authorized to bestow with
appropriate ceremonies, military and
civil, the congressional medal of hon
or upon the unknown, unidentified
British soldier buried in Westminster
Abbey, London, England, and upon the
unknown, unidentified French soldier
buried In the Arc de Trlomphe, Paris,
France."
It .now seems likely that we are to
have the same sort of a ceremony
here In America that an unknown
American soldier's body will be brought
,home from France and buried at Ar
llngtonor possibly even in the capitol.
to Bomb Warships
"With a fast plane I would!
feel perfectly secure to fly around
all day over the Atlantic fleet
and let them shoot at me with any
thing they have anything from a
popgun to a 16-lnch piece." read a let
ter from Capt. Llarvey Weir Cook of
Fort Crook, Neb.
Army flyers claim they could sink
the biggest battleship with one direct
hit with a 1,100 pound bomb dropped
from an altitude of 9,000 feet. They
contend that the explosive would hava
such force It would buckle in the
plates of the warship, making It Im
possible to keep afloat.
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