Bridgeton pioneer., June 03, 1915, Image 2

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The Bride and Her Maids
Both the wedding gown and the
wedding veil, according to the man
dates of the powers that be in making
styles, may be either long or short,
according to the fancy of the bride.
The little youthful maiden usually en
joys very much the glory of the long
trained wedding gown, but if she
would be original, or independent, she
has an opportunity now to be correct
ly garbed in the most youthful of short
skirts.
For materials, chiffon, lace, voile
and net, or satin, veiled with any one
of the filmiest materials, seem to
make the strongest appeal to the
brides of this particular June. Em
broidery of silver and seed pearls ap
pears on the most splendid of wedding
gowns and lace, especially if it be old
and precious and has adorned the
brides of the family before, comes in
for worshipful attention.
In the matter of the veil, few cap
like arrangements on the head appear
as compared with more simple adjust
ments. Orange blossoms or jasmine
jflowers make the wreath and some
veils fall over the face, reaching Just
below the chin or to the waist line at
the front. At the back the veil for
the short dress may fall only to the
knees. *--3$%
^ The splendid wedding gown shown
In the picture is made with the con
ventional long train, but is cut "V”
shaped at the neck. The bodice is
I veiled with chiffon and the tulle veil
falls from a wreath of orange btos
Soms ovfr the figure to the end of the
flower-trimmed train!
The bridesmaids’ gowns are made of
jS thin material having graduated
|\>ands of satin around the full, straight
skirts, the widest band forming the
border at the bottom. The bodices of
chiffon and satin are made with round
£>utch necks and flounces, lengthened
at the back of the arm, extend from
the short sleeves.
The maid of honor wears a girdle of
flowers Instead of satin and her bodice
Is draped with lace. All wear wide
brimmed hats, bordered with drooping
chiffon and trimmed with big roses at
the front. All carry baskets with long
handles, filled with clusters of small
blossoms. The handles are adorned
with wide ribbon tied in bows with
long ends.
JULIA BOTTOMLEY.
Queues on the Hats.
Long, slim queues with bright beads
on the one end and saucy little hats
on the other make Fifth avenue in
New York look like the road to Jlan
dalay. There are cunning little hats
shaped like pagodas which are
trimmed with applied terra cotta cher
ries. One of these hats has an un
derbrim of black patent leather braid
and the black silk tassel on top stands
up straight. A black, tasseled ribbon
streamer completes the hat. "The
chin-chin" hat has a crown of shirred
silk. The black miian rim covers both
eyebrows and stops at nothing save
the lashes. A queue of braided ribbon
hangs at the back which has a tassel
of jet beads at the end, reaching be
low the waist, -,.v
>* Don’t Forget the Apron.
In replenishing your wardrobe don’t
forget to have at leadt one gown which. '
can boast of an apron. For instance,
on an afternoon gown of green soft
taffeta attach a pointed apron of the
material, and at the proper places
have two little pockets. Have a two
inch-wide belt at the top of the apron
—this is to serve as the girdle of the
dress—and let it run off into space in
the form of apron strings, which are
to be tied in a pert bow.
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New Touches in Finishing Summer Blouses
A group of three of the latest sum
mer blouses pictured in the illustra
tion given here, shows some of the
new finishing touches by which manu
facturers accomplish variety in mak
ing these waists. They are of pongee
and crepe-de-chine. Machine hem
stitching and buttons are the features
depended upon for decoration, and
occasional little oddities in the cut
of collar and cuffs or yoke and body
give individuality to the design.
At the left a plain waist of pon
gee, also made in crepe, has seams set
together with machine hemstitching.
The long, plain sleeves are finished at
the wrist with a hemstitched band
instead of cuffs. Buttons are set on
in groups and are often in red, green
or black; the brightest of the green
or red shades are used.
At the right a dainty waist of crepe
de-chine is embroidered at each side
with a flower spray in the shoulder
seams, an insertion of Venetian lace
is set in. Hemstitched plaits down
the front elaborate the model further,
and the sleeves are long. The high
collar is finished with hemstitching
also. Round pearl buttons finish this
model, which is dressier in character
than the others.
' At the -center a smart model is |
shown having a plain round yoke. It
is made of white crepc-de-chine and
the body is set to the yoke with hem
stitching in black silk thread. In
keeping with this novel innovation the
small, round buttons are of black jet
The odd collar and cuffs are cut with
points; the collar having three that
are hemstitched. Each point is fin
ished with one of the jet buttons.
They are wired to support them, and
turned back when the waist is worn.
Buttons decorate also the pointed
cuffs. All stitching in this model is
done in black silk.
JULIA BOTTOMLEY.
Cheap Dust Caps.
There is no excuse for getting the
hair dusty, for dust caps can be bought
in pretty prints in pink or violet and
white for 12 cents each.
These are really pretty caps, with
an elastic to keep them snug at the
back, and a standing of ruchelike frill
about the face. They are useful not
only for sweeping and dusting, but
for cooking.
They keep any possible dust from
the hair safely out of the way and
they also keep the odors of cooking
from entering the hair—where they
would cling tenaciously.
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"JERSEY NEXT” IS SUFFRAGE SLOGAN
Men Send the Gar "Voter” Through the State.
•‘New Jersey Next:” is not only the slogan of the unenfranchised half of
the people of .he state, but also the warcry of hundreds of New Jersey men
who want the.r mothers and wives, their sweethearts and sisters, to walk side
by side with them as citizens with equal rights.
The men of New Jersey have decided it is time they gave active help in
the campaign to put New Jersey on the suffrage map. Accordingly, the Men's
League For Woman Suffrage, of which Champlain L. Itiley of Plainfield is
president, has bought a little yellow ear, which is to lie used all over the state
to reach tin* voters.
The on" is to lie manned by Miss Eva Ward, who is to act as field worker
for the New Jersey Men's League. She Is now setting forth on a lonely pil
grimage to cover as many of the twenty-one counties of the state as ,1me and
the auto will permit.
“We are calling the car ‘Voter’ because it has been given to the campaign
by voters of the state,” explained Miss Ward, “and we are interesting our
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“THE VOTER.”
selves principally in the politicians. The editors of the New Jersey papers r:;;
that they want to know what the politicians are going to do about woman
suffrage. So that's one thing we are going to try to find out. You see.
‘Mohammed is going to the mountain.’ Fortunately New Jersey is not too
large a state to be covered. I am taking the ‘Industrial Directory,’ because ac
often as possible I am going to stop outside factory gates in lunch hours and
talk to the men directly and give them literature. I don’t mean to lose one
single speechmaking chance.
“We are neutral on all questions but suffrage, and here we show our colors
all the time, for ‘Voter’ has a brilliant yellow campaign dress. In each town
on the tour there are men who stand for suffrage and who will help in the
work of the campaign. The car will act as a kind of peripatetic office, carry
ing all the equipment for action, and I shall have to be at different times all of ?,
secretary-chauffeur-typist-speaker-organizer-reporter. The Men’s League is co
operating with all the women’s organizations, and we are hoping to do much
useful scouting for them.”
The league has many noted members, and numbers of leading politicians
are 'among the active workers in the campaign, among them Attorney Gen
eral Westcott, Sheriff Eugene Kinkead, Congressman Hamill, Senator
Charles O’Connor Henneesy and the Hon. Everett Colby. Among the vice presi
dents are the Hon. Ernest R. Ackerman of Plainfield. Mayor Victor Mvralag
of Elizabeth, ex-Governor John Franklin Fort of Orange, Colonel George Har
vey, Linton Satterthwait of Trenton, the Rev. Edgar S. Weirs, Montclair; Jesse
Lynch Williams, Princeton; Captain Albert N. Wood, U. S. N., retired; William
Hard, Montclair, and John Cotton Dana of Newark.
ONE IN EVERY FIVE.
One woman in every five in
the United States already has
the right to vote for president.
Will you add the women of
New Jersey to this number in
November?
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A Consistent Mother to Her Son.
You're twenty-one today, Willie,
And a danger lurks at the door.
I've known about it always,
But I never spoke before.
When you were only a baby
It seemed so very remote.
But you're twenty-one today, Willie,
And old enough to vote.
You must not go to the polls, Willie,
Never go to the polls.
They're dark and dreadful places
Where many lose their souls;
They smirch, degrade and coarsen.
Terrible things they do
To quiet, elderly women—
What would they do to you!
If you’ve a boyish fancy
For any measure or man,
Tell me and I’ll tell father,
He'll vote for it if he can.
He casts my vote, and Louisa's
And Sarah and dear Aunt Clo;
Wouldn’t you let him vote for you?
Father, who loves you so?
.
I've guarded you always, Willie,
Body and soul from harm;
Til guard your faith and honor.
Your innocence and charm
From the polls and their evil spirits,
Politics, rum and pelf.
Do you think I'd send my only son
Where I would not go myself?
—Alice Duer Miller
Danish Women Win Full Suffrage.
On Jane 5 the king of Denmark will
sign a bill conferring full suffrage on
the women of Denmark.
For seven years all Danish women
who are taxpayers have had a vote for
all officers except members of parlia
ment.
Equal suffrage spreads from one
country to another in Europe as it
spreads from state to state in our own
country. The women of Norway have
full suffrage, while there is an im
mense popular majority for equal suf
frage in Sweden. Full suffrage in
Sweden has been delayed only by the
vote of the upper house, which is nou
eleetive.
Equal Pay In Scotland.
Women are being employed on Glas
gow tram cars run by the corporation's
committee. The initial experiment had
been so good that after hearing a re
port upon the women's work the gen
eral manager was instructed to
ahead and employ as many women as
he found necessary. The women are
being paid 27 shillings, same as the
men. and the hours and general condi- 1
tions are to remain as they were when
tnen worked alone on the cars.
LITTLE ANTI-ANTIDOTES.
Anti-suffrage.
“Women will either divide on issues
In the proportion that men do. in
which case they but double the vote
without affecting the result, or they
will vote in opposition to men. in which
case they nullify men's votes.”
Antidote.
John Smith will either vote as Pe l
Brown votes or he won't, if lie vo.es
as Bill does he merely doubles the
vote. If he votes contrariwise to Bill
he kills Bill's vote. Which shall be
disfranchised. Bill or John?
Anti-suffrage.
“As to women voting, the situation,”
says Miss Lucy Price, “would be that
of a business concern in which the
partners' interests and work were ex
actly the same. If this were the case
the business would soon fail.”
Antidote.
Well, how would you like to be a
partner iu a business where your in
terests and work were exactly diverse
from your partner’s? If. for instance,
he made gunpowder while you made
nursing bottles? And specially how
would you like it if, in this diversity
of work and interests, he could have
his say about how the business should
be run and you had no say at all?
College Women Trouble the Antis.
It is now unusual to find educated
women of the present generation who
are opposed to the enfranchisement of
their own sex, but suffragists were
somewhat surprised when this was ad
mitted by a leading anti-suffragist of
Poughkeepsie, N. Y.
This lady startled her audience re
cently by saying:
"Poughkeepsie has suffered from its
proximity to a woman's college. The
college students, who seem to be all
suffragists, used to come over and dem
onstrate their enthusiasm in Pough
keepsie under the rule of President
Taylor. Now that Dr. McCracken, an
ardent suffragist himself, is in charge
they keep their enthusiasm on the
campus.”
Labor Committed to Suffrage.
The American labor movement
stands committed for equality of op
portunity. for equal work, whether per
formed by men or women. It also
stands for equal rights before the law.
and that implies equal suffrage in the
celection of those who shall administer
and execute the law.—Samuel Gornpors.
Moral Force, According to Edison.
From the laboratory of Thomas A.
Edison comes this statement: "I beg to
say that 1 am in favor of woman suf
frage. Woman is by far the best of
humanity, the greatest moral force in
the world.”
A Curious Hi ••■on.
What has come to be called C
"Firehole" lu the Yellowstone National
park Is a large hot sjulng from the
bottom of which, to all appearances, a
light colored flnme is constantly issu
ing, only to lie extinguished in the wa
ter before it reaches the surface. At
times it has a distinct ruddy tinge, and
it always flickers back and forth like
the lambent flnme of a torch. When
seen under favorable conditions the
illusion is perfect, and the beholder is
sure that .he has at last caught a
glimpse of the hidden (ires which pro
duce the weird phenomena of this re
gion. But it is only illusion. Through
a fissure in the rock superheated steam
escapes and divides the water just as
bubbles do on a small scale. The re
flection from the surface thus formed
accounts for the appearance, which is
intensified by the black background
formed by the sides and bottom of
the pool.—“The Yellowstone National
Park," by Iliram Martin Chittenden.
Brigadier General, U. S. A., Retired.
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Prolific Fungi.
An average sized mushroom will pro
duce as many ns 1.800.000,000 spores,
and a common toadstool shaggy (Tap
has been shown to produce as many as
6,000,000,000. Fortunately for the oth
er inhabitants of the world, however,
the probability of successful growth of
any given siiore is somewhat remote.
The mushroom or toadstool plant is
formed by tine dimentous threads
which ramify beneath the soil, and if
we assume that a successful plant of
the mushroom or shaggy caps produces
as many as ten mushrooms or toad
stools we find that the chance against
successful growth to maturity is re
spectively about 18,0-00,000,000 and 50,
000,000 to one in the two species men
tioned. Even more prolific than the
mushrooms and toadstools proper is
the giant puffball, a large specimen of
which has been known to produce as
many as 7.000.000.000,000 spores.—Lon
don Knowledge.
Two Convincing Reasons.
Lord Peterborough, who lived in the
reign of Queen Anne, was very frolic
some, and one day, seeing from his
carriage a dancing master with pearl
colored stockings lightly stepping over
the broad stones and picking his way
in extremely dirty weather, he alight
ed and ran after him with drawn sword
in order to drive him into the mud,
but into which he, of course, followed
himself. This nobleman was once tak
en for the Duke of Marlborough and
was mobbed in consequence. The duke
was then in disgrace with the people,
and Lord Peterborough was about to
be roughly handled. Turning to them,
he said: \
“Gentlemen, i can convince you by
two reasons that 1 am not the Duke of
Marlborough. In the first place, I have
only 5 guineas in my pocket, and, in
the second, they are heartily at your
service.”
Burned For Thirty Years.
Some illicit whisky distillers once set
up their plant in the workings of a
disused coal mine on a lonely part of
the South Sauchie coal field, in Scot
land, but an accident compelled them
to change their quarters. They discov
ered that one of their furnaces had
caused a smoldering fire in the aban
doned coal seam, and, failing in their
efforts to extinguish it, the “moon
shiners" left the place in a hurry with
out reporting the occurrence to the au
thorities. The fire in the old pit con
tinued to smolder until at night the
flames, issuing from the mouth of the
shaft, attracted the attention of the in
habitants around. But it was found
that the fire had reached such a point
that all attempts to put it out proved
futile. It burned itself out in thirty
years.—London Mail.
Defeated Himself.
When couched in negative form re
quests bring negative results. A young
man said to a father. “I suppose you
will refuse if I ask for the hand of
your daughter." The father replied,
“Yes, I will refuse, but if you had put
it the other way, that you were bound
to have my daughter if you had to kill
me first, you could have had her. As
it is, you have defeated yourself at
the start, and I do not want a son-in
law of that type of mind. A man who
defeats himself on propositions at the
start needs to be looked after by some
one else most of the time."—Tomor
row’s Topics.
An Unreasonable Fellow.
“Oh, it’s no fun being engaged to
him,” she said bitterly.
“Why not?” asked her dearest friend.
“Why, when you stir up a little
quarrel Just to drive away the ennui
he takes it seriously and keeps you
worried for fear you’ve really lost
him.”
Different Now.
“Time alters many things.”
"What’s the matter?”
“Here I have been half an hour try
ing to wake up little Willie, and when
he was a baby many a time I’d have
given all I had Just to get him to
sleep.”—Detroit Free Press.
Taking a Chance on Him,
“What was you askin’ for the wid
der’s bonnet, mum?”
“Well—er—I thought nlnepence.”
“ ’E's very ill. mum. I think I’ll
risk it.”—London Tatler.
On the Trip.
Captain — Looks like a baby squall
*omiug up. Passenger—I suppose it is
coming from the cradle of the deep.—
Baltimore American.
You can’t gain admission to a man’s
confidences by knocking. — Omaha
World-Herald.
Happy Days Soon I
V— ■ ■
Oh. the summer days arc coming.
And the bees will soon bo humming.
Where the clover tops are nigiiing In
the sun:
And the breezes will be straying
'Mongst the shadows lightly playing.
While they hover where the murmuring
waters run.
The rainbow will be bending.
All its colors gladly lending «
To the blossoms that are sending at
the sky:
As their perfume they are flinging
Through tlie sunshine and the singing,
And perhaps we ll all be liappy by
and by.
When fhe calendar discloses
June amid the dewy roses
As the robin whistles jauntily and clear;
WThen the moon is brightly glowing
And the silver river flowing
Sings a melody the starlight stops to
hear:
Then the earth that seems so fretful
Will grow gentle and forgetful
Of the faults and follies that have made
us sigli.
I Summer days are drawing near us.
Once again to charm and cheer us.
And perhaps we'll all be happy by
and by.
—Washington Star.
FINDS IN STRANGER
HER UNKNOWN SISTER.
Live In Same Town, but Not Aware
They Are Related.
Separated when babies and living
over thirty years without the knowl
edge that the other existed, two sisters,
Mrs. B. L. Ogilvie of Weston, Mass.,
and Mrs. Robert T. Woodruff of Squan
tum. Mass., have just made each oth
er's acquaintance.
The women are the daughters of the
late Frank Arrington of Salem, Mass.,
who died a year ago. In 1884, when
Mrs. Ogilvie. then Delcie Arrington,
was three years of age and her sister,
Constance, thirteen months, their moth
er died. The father allowed the young
er one to be adopted by Mr. and Mrs.
Benamin Sanborn of Wellesley.
Legally adopted the baby became
Alice Sanborn, and five years ago she
married Robert T. Woodruff, a Lynn
lawyer. Delcie lived with her father
In Salem and left him to become the
wife of B. L. Ogilvie, a Weston grain
merchant. They have five children and
the Woodruffs one.
The knowledge that Mrs. Ogilvie had
a sister came to her in a peculiar man
ner. While on his deathbed her fa
ther was visited by his sister, who
came east for the first time in twenty
three years. During her stay in Salem
she casually asked Mrs. Ogilvie if she
had heard anything of her sister Con
stance.
As her father was too sick to be ask
ed Mrs. Ogilvie learned from her aunt
the brief facts of the early separation.
Then she began a long search which
ended in finding the adoption papers.
One of the curious features of the
case is that for a while both sisters
lived in Wellesley. Before he- mar
riage Mrs. Ogilvie worked in tL , same
town where her sister was going to -
school and. though the two looked so
much alike, they never met there.
GRAY CLOTH BRITISH PUZZLE.
Enormous Exports From England of
Material Used Only by Germans.
England is greatly puzzled by the
fact that in the three months ending
March 31 British mills exported 1,277,
835 yards of unbleached gray cotton
cloth as compared with only 170,6S4
yards for the same period in 1014. Nor
does the board of trade report indicate
where this great quantity of gray cloth
went. None of the allies uses gray
cloth for uniforms, but the Ger
mans do.
Nor is there less mystery in the cir
cumstance that in the same three •
months British merchants have sold
to Holland and Sweden 13,093,008
pounds of coffee as against only 3,728,
704 pounds in the first quarter of last
year, 11,824,825 pounds of cocoa as
against 4.705.095 pounds, 6,068,535
pounds of tea against 2.037.221 pounds,
3,500,194 gallons of gasoline against
only 031.803 gallons and 19,004 tons of
oilseed against only 473 tons.
GETS CHECK FOR $16,150,000
With It Steel Company Receives Brit
ish Order For 8,000 Cannon.
The Bethlehem Steel company has
received an order for 8,000 cannon,
from Lord Kitchener, head of the
British war office. The order was ac
companied by a check for $16,150,000,
partly for work already done for the
British government and partly in ad
vance for the new field pieces.
The cannon ordered are fleldpieces
that can be turned out In about a
month.
Shrapnel is now being turned out at
Bethlehem at the rate of 12,000 shells
a day, and of one pounder and smaller'
shells the product is 50,000 and up
ward every twenty-four hours.
WRIST WATCH BATTLE PERIL
Armies May Forbid Them Because
Many Arms Are Lost.
The wrist watch is found in all the
armies in the war, and they are very
frequently hit.
When high velocity bullets strike it
fairly the effect is to shatter the watch
ihto unrecognizable fragments. These
are often driven into the hones of the
wrist, hand or forearm, and the result
ing damage is so radical that no treat
ment can restore the use of the arm.
Many of these injuries have been re
ported in the German army, and prohi
bition of the wrist watch altogether la
likely to be adopted.