1 i Denar Ftd, Bellefonte, Pa., January 8, 1915. FOR YOU. 1 have some good advice for you My merry little man, *Tis this: where’re your lot is cast Oh, do the best you can! And find the good in everything, No matter what or where; And don’t be always looking for The hardest thing to bear. Oh, do not stand with idle hands, And wait for something grand, While precious moments slip away Like grains of shining sand! But do the duty nearest you, And do it faithfully, For stepping stones to greater things These little deeds shall be. In this big world of ours, my boy, There’s work for all to do, Just measure by the Golden Rule That which is set for you; And try it with the square of truth, And with the line of right; In every act and thought of yours Oh, keep your honor bright! —Selected. FROM INDIA. By One on Medical Duty 1m that Far Eastern Country. A Native Wedding. Women Market- ing. Big Trout and Other Sights Around Srinegar. SRINEGAR, OCTOBER 15th, 1913. Dear Home Folk: Tonight a wedding is in progress just across the river; it started yesterday sometime and last night the singers, women, when I first noticed them, were singing and they have a peculiar song . for the others. impossibility, to find anything just to have a great deal longer to watch this summer's going. I have bought various carved wooden : things to send to you—a table is one, and some cigar boxes for G. and T. (to hold those cigars they are always getting at Christmas time,) and other trinkets Father seems to be an suit, for I know he would laugh at a “Pashima” dressing gown, made as they are here, but I am going to find him a jade ink-well if I can. I saw one the oth- er day and am now on the search for another. A new bungalow is evidently being — MOTHER-CHILD WORLD PEACE MOVE- i MENT. [Published by Request.] Inasmuch as The People of the World have failed to solve this great War Prob- lem may I venture to suggest that in all probability the key lies in the hands of the children and mothers of the world. They and they ALCNE now are the only ones to whom blind, stumbling, frenzied, humanity abroad will not turn a deaf ear for these little ones are their own flesh and blood, these mothers are really the makers of the nations. ! Christ has said “And a Little Child Shall Lead Them.” Christ loves peace land He loves little children. Perhaps? ' who knows? Stranger things than this have happened in our day. The mothers and babies of these five ‘Salt River Valley in Arizona by the U. S. Raises Ostriches. Experiments have been begun in the Federal Department of Agriculture to solve some of the problems connected with the raising of ostriches in the Unit- | ed States. In their inquiries the scien- | tists of the department will have the | aid of farmers of that section, even to the extent of furnishing birds, feed and equipment. i The first importation of ostriches into | the United States was made in 1882 from South Africa into California. Several other importations were made after this date, and it was one of these later import- ations that brought into the country the North African, or Nubian, bird. Most of the birds in this country today are the PREVENTION VS. CURE. Little Talks on Health and Hygiene by Samuel G. Dixon, M. D., LL. D., Commissioner of Health. The well worn adage to the effect that *An ounce of prevention’s worth a pound of cure” has long been accepted as one of the wisest of saws.” We are all willing to admit that pre- vention is the thing, but too often we stick at the price and then are obliged to pay roundly when the necessity for cure is forced upon us. when one is threatened with a hard cold seems to many people an extravagant waste of time and yet it would be diffi- cult to estimate how many really serious illnesses might be prevented by rest and care in the early stages. : A day at home in bed : built in the neighborhood and great i | great nations in conflict are the ones Scows of stones are Seg tigated at i who are suffering and who WILL suffer our very door-way and their coolies load | most keenly for many years to come. them on their backs and carry them up We all know this. Why then, should not the bank many feet high to a big cart they be the ones © raise their Yoloes Pi : : : one long, loud cry for peace. Peace for and this, too, is being drawn by human | themselves! The sake of future genera- strength. It all seems strange to me, ac- | tion sakes! Peace for God's and their here—it’s like three fairly high-pitched notes said toa word that sounds like | “Tong” short, and then they drop a one-half note lower and hold it probably three beats, and then repeat. This was | kept up without cessation until after | midnight; of course the drum helped a | lot. Then the men started and their | song was just as unmusical and of the | same character; this morning when | I got up at six-thirty they were still - going on. The day has been quiet, but | tonight again the women are at the same ! thing and the long-drawn minor note | solinds across the water like the wail of | a “lost soul.” | But I will forget them—the moon is | full and holding high carnival with all | this beauty; I think the Scenic Artist of this all is helping a bit for a faint gray : mist has come over it all and the moun- | customed as I am to having machinery do all the work that is to be done and it is sickening to see three men lifta great stone and the fourth, bending over, they place it just behind his head, between his shoulders and then straining until his brown face is crimson, he straightens up and balancing it with one hand, up the bank he goes. They are not all young men, these workers, but gray beard and gray hair attest to their age, and yet their muscles are like great cords. You would be surprised to see the children—little tiny tots and older ones too, nothing on but their “kurtas,” play- ing in the water these cold, cold morn- ings while I am shivering under all my warm clothing and a great heavy cape. They all belong to the lower walk of life and maybe that is the reason; fresh air and exercise keeping them in good condition. The wedding is over at last and the bride, weeping until you heard her at this side, was taken off to her husband and we were left in peace. Now, again, I am going to stop. Don’t know when I will get the next installment for going as we shall be for a week or more I won’t try to mail letters; they might get lost | and that wouldn’t do. So again good- bye for a time. (Continued next week.) HOW I DID CHURCH WORK. BY MARTHA ALRICKS JOHNSON. It was years and years ago, and I was walking along River front, one of the principal streets of my native city, when I heard a voice calling, “Stop, Martha, | country’s sake! If the children now suf- fering in silence could see with the eyes have cried out not only for Peace but vengeance. These unoffending ones will live to curse the day they were born. ! Their lives have been crippled and they | and their mothers will go down to their graves with bitterness and hate within their hearts for those who have wrought this devastation upon them. What an accounting this will be on the Great Day! The mothers and children of the United States are the brothers and sisters of i these unfortunates. They too should | raise their hands in supplication. They too should pray for peace. I would suggest that they be urged to unite in sending a Written Plea to the Nations at War begging them to lay down their arms for the sake of their own mothers and children—their wives and babes. Nothing should be left undone to help these people see the light. This may prove the “One Touch of Nature” which has not yet come but WILL come and come to find heads bound with shame and hearts full of eagerness to begin the New Year with “Malice toward none and charity for all” as our great Lincoln has said. If this fails, then truly “The conflict has passed beyond the bounds of human intervention” and their God has forsaken them also. Many of us, most of us have lost faith, have ceased to pray with any real hope for peace. We say, ‘How Long O Lord, ! How Long” but make no effort to stop it. NOW who of you whoread this, who of you mothers want to help to bring this carnage to an end? It is absolutely in your hands! have been singularly silent. kind abroad stand dumb and questioning inertia of the soul, of the body, eating them away. They are stunned, too stun- ned even to ask for a bite of bread. You! You and your well clad, well kept and happy babies will regret it maybe if you of their parents they would long since, descendants of the birds imported into California, and consist almost wholly of the South African breed. The two breeds differ in that the South African bird -has a steel colored skin and bears feathers of great length and width, while the Nubian is slightly larger, with a pink-colored skin, bearing a feather with a very heavy flue, which is more or less unsymmetrical, tending to be narrow and one-sided. The ostriches in this country are no longer confined to one locality, but are spreading through the south, and are even in the north. Ostrich farms are found in California, Arizona, Texas, Ar- kansas, Florida and Pennsylvania. Ten farms have over 100 birds each, five farms over 400 birds each and one farm has over 2000 birds. In all, about 75 farms in the United States are making a business of ostrich farming. The num- ber of birds on these farms is about 7100, | of which 2685 are in Arizona. | Approximately 4900 of all the birds are plucking birds and give on the average one and one-quarter pounds of feathers per bird, which is valued at $20 a pound. Besides this, a pair of breeding birds will easily reach $350, and eggs for hatch- ing sell at about $10 apiece. Egg shields find a limited market as curiosities at 50 : cents to $1 each. The most valuable feathers are the main wing feathers of the male bird. If exceptionally fine, these may bring $500 to $600 a pound. The average run of wing goods on the market is $85 to $125 a pound. The first plucking of feathers is made when the chicken is 6 to 8 months of age. The first plucking is of little value, and only the main wing feathers, known as spadones, are cut. These feathers sell at $8 to $16 a pound. Successive pluckings take place | about every eight months after the first, : the feathers being left on the bird two How many parents have suffered the agonies of regret for failing to seek medical advice when their children were suffering from “sore throat” and which eventually proved to be diphtheria with terrifying rapidity. How frequently in severe weather we see women sacrificing comfort and de- fying common sense in their dress for . the sake of what they consider appear- | ances. How .many men working under | strain and physically exhausted try to “buck up” with a few drinks. These are but a few common examples ' of the people who will not pay the price for their ounce of prevention. They may | partly escape once, twice, a dozen times, but in the long run they foot a heavy bill. The physicians’ best patients are the men and women who boast of never | having a doctor until they are really sick. | Much of the greatest work which has | been accomplished in medicine during the past generation has been preventive | work. The great future of the art lies in prevention and the time is rapidly approaching when to suffer from many of the now common ailments, will be, looked upon by all intelligent people as evidence that the sufferer has been in- excusably neglectful of his own wel- fare. | Do not hesitate to pay cheerfully the cost of prevention when health is at. i i stake, for no investment offers a higher premium than your physical well-being. DESERTS NO LONGER KNOWN How Modern Man Has Successfully Removed Nature's Obstacles to Progress. Nature has set up four kinds of bar- months longer, at the end of which time riers to man’s conquest of the earth— You and your children Your own ' they are drawn. wing feathers are cut, and the first and second row of coverts, floss and tail feathers are plucked. are feeding and rearing the chicks. Feeding is not yet on a scientific basis, and it is hoped that the Department of Agriculture may be able to give help in this direction. Then, too, the hatching and raising of ostrich chicks are far from satisfactory in results. After mating, The chief problems of ostrich farmers | them for railways, do not act now. | 1 i tains look like exquisite gray clouds, stop please! you are just the person I and the reflection of the poplars in the water is as though seen through a veil, all like a dainty fairy-tale—nothing real and tangible, only suggestive; even the dogs are quiet. I think I have told you, ' no dog is allowed to be killed and of all the curs seen in the whole world, I think you will find his type in this Kashmir. | And now to bd for it is past nine o’clock | and my bed time here is with these peo-' ple—“when the sun goes down;” so | Good-night. ; | OCTOBER 18th.—We took a little jaunt across our beautiful! lake again yester- ! day and now the willows that edged the tiny islands are no longer like fringes, but, denuded of all the pretty, this year’s growth, made me think of leprous hands —all fingers gone. We passed coolie women squatted “Turk” fashion, on the uttermost front of : their boats, paddling their loads of young | and tender water-lilly leaves and stems to the bazaar for cattle food. Others, | with the shoots of the lotus, smooth and white, tied up in big bunches, and bunch- es of turnips as their load; still others, with bunches of grass and small armful of wood with a string around it, ali sit on the front paddling, their arms full of sil- ver bracelets, “kurta” so dirty, it alone would weigh tons; head covered with the inevitable long white cloth, and all indifferent as to who we were or where ! we were going. As we rowed across the lake I some- how was reminded of home and sudden- ly it occurred to me the water looked exactly like the big spring—just as clear and sparkling. Can you imagine how beautiful it would be if you could boat on the Spring, but go for four or five miles. Four men were paddling and yet it took us two hours to get to another | beautifu! garden which we wanted to see. We then walked up the ravine for about two miles to see some big trout and, tell father, he need only put down his hand and #7 to catch the biggest ! trout I ever laid eyes on. you don’t dare fish for them except un- der the Spillway, and then the limit is ten pounds; no fish under that weight can be taken. We walked blisters on our feet and wrinkles into our disposi- tion; but it all goes in seeing Kashmir with a limited purse. The summer is past up here and away But of course, | | home, to think it over and talk it over want to see!” “Oh! is that you Julia,” I replied, turning around to get a glance at the speaker. “What is it that I can do for you, my friend?” Coming over to where I stood the young woman, who had accosted me, re- plied. “Sadie Sommerville, who was to have taken charge of the sewing society of the New School Presbyterian church, took sick, and is not able to take her part, and as I could not do the work alone, I want you to help me.” “I would be glad to oblige you Jule, but am afraid to undertake the task, asl have no experience in that line, and know practically nothing about cutting out underwear.” “You need not be afraid to undertake the work, there’s a paper pattern to go by, and you will have my assistance. You'll come will you not?” “If you think I can do the work I'm willing to try it.” “Oh! I'm sure you can. You'll get along, we'll only be there from 3 o'clock to 5.” “All right I'll be there.” I had not seen my friend for more than a year, she was abroad and now when I was with her we had much to talk about, and time flew quickly, and soon we had the whole web of canton flannel cut into the required length. It was Jule’s proposition that I do the cutting while she picked up the fuzzy pieces of flannel that fell on the floor and assorted the pieces that were piled up on the table in order to expedite the work for the sewers who came later on. We were both busily employed in lay- ing aside the pieces as I cut them, when with a look of astonishment on her coun- tenance, she exclaimed. “For goodness sake, what you’ve done!” I stepped hurriedly over to where my friend was at work and took a glance —there were thirty-five legs of drawers all for one leg.” At first we decided to say nothing about it, but to buy another web of can- ton flannel and get our fine work in on that. But that would cost money and as we had no more of this world’s goods than we could get along on, we abandoned : that project, and shutting up shop went Martha, look with the sympathizing family. No one in the United States seems to want to start anything. If you and the children do it no complication can arrive and it may accomplish a great end. May I urge the mothers, the women, the boys and girls, the men of right think- ing, the ministers, the teachers and all who read this and wish it to go into ef- fect to let me know by postal, letter or otherwise as soon as possible. A dozen or less words will do. Your letter may through. Mgs. C. G. MACAvoOY. P. R. R. General Manager Sends New Year’s Greetings. Under date of December 31st General Manager S. C. Long, of the Penna. R. R. Co., sends New Year’s greetings to the lows: On behalf of the Management and on my personal account, I desire to extend New Year's greetings to the employees of the Pennsylvania Railroad and their families. Many of us have spent our we feel great pride in what this railroad stands for. Each of us, too, has a right to take to himself a part of the credit for what the Pennsylvania Railroad is, and all of us are proud to be associated with such a splendid army of fellows, officers and em- ployees, but to produce a thing so big and fine involves many sacrifices. The very bigness of the organization deprives the general officers of the privi- lege of knowing personally many of the rank and file. I am sorry, therefore, that it-is not possible for me to extend this greeting in person to you and to each member of your family. "I wish I could make you feel that your faithful work is appreciated for how for the loyal service and devotion of its men. yours from a consciousness of duty well performed. We are all working together. all employees but to perform our part in all the people and what is theirs. Penna. Railroad and for all railroads. ' three keep the thought here, the lack of it may | send it to other towns that will see it: ' taken under water in the West Indias by | | vention. One of them, Mr. J. E. Wil-| company’s army of employees, as fol- lives in the service of the railroad and! | water world is most worthy of note, be- ‘and in the past few months a marvelous helpless our great railroad would be but | I wish you all the joy that should be Not ! merely for the prosperity of a great cor- poration which means better times for promoting the progress and welfare of | average time of exposure being 100th This has been a trying era for the were obtained at various depths of from the hen starts to lay her first batch of eggs. She lays 14 to 16 eggs and then she starts to sit. If the eggs are taken from her she can often be made to lay batches. The eggs are hatched naturally or artificially, the latter being. the more common practice. The per- centage of chicks hatched varies, but the average is poor, while the number of chicks that die from one cause or anoth- er is very large. Moving Pictures Under Water. i Remarkable moving pictures have been | the Williamson Brothers, of Virginia, using special apparatus of their own in- | liamson, has written for the Scientific American an account of his methods and experiences, part of which we quote be- low. The first really successful photo- graphs ever made under the sea, Mr. Williamson claims, were produced about a year ago at Hampton Roads, Va. by the father of the writer, Mr. Charles Williamson, who devised what is the basic principle of the apparatus here de- scribed. “The submarine apparatus which made possible the easy access to this under- ginning, as it does, a new era of enter- prise, reducing to a minimum the risk, and eliminating all physical strain. This device allows any one to step from the deck of a vessel and climb down through an open air-shaft to any desired depth, and there look and reach out and carry on, within limits, any work he may wish to accomplish. Through its use the first practical submarine pictures were made, motion-picture film has been produced with this apparatus—the Williamson sub- marine tube. Its flexible metallic con- | struction makes a habitable hole in the water down and through which the cam- era man passes to his subaqueous studio to work for hours under normal atmos- pheric conditions. “Pictures were made at night with the | aid of our submarine lamps. They were each equipped with a 2400 candle-power Cooper-Hewitt quartz burner, and the results obtained, as ¢he films show, are remarkably successful. The exposure used for these night pictures was about the same as that used in daytime, the part of a second. Wonderful results Generally the main | mountains, forests, deserts, rivers, an sxchange remarks. The first he can- | aot remove, so he bores holes through | The second he has, most unwisely, largely cleared away altogether. The third he is be- ginning to treat like the forests. The fourth he is shifting to suit his pur- poses and to regulate their flow at | will. | Man flies now over all boundaries. He cuts through isthmuses to remove the barriers between the seas. Into the deserts man sends rail roads, telegraph lines, irrigation en- : gineers. The “Great American Des- ert” marked upon the atlases of our fathers has ceased to exist. The vast ‘desert” of northwestern Canada has become a boundless prairie of waving | wheat. now much more than half covered with pine trees. In 1902, 22,000 square miles of the Algerian desert had been made fruitful by artesian wells. The ‘Australian desert” is rapidly being irrigated and turned into grazing ‘and. Almost 70,000 square miles of | ‘desert” in’ India has been reclaimed. Sir William Willcocks is now engaged ‘n reclaiming 19,000 square miles of ‘he delta of the Tigris and Euphrates and more than 4,000 square miles of the Gezireh plain between the Blue and White Nile are being transformed ! nto cotton plantations. Thus is man, by obliterating natural harriers, improving upon nature. Wanted a Hook Cigar. He was a seedy-looking fellow, al- though he looked as if he had the virtues of thrift and industry. He had just finished paying his tax bill and was standing in the corridor out- side of the tax department. His curi- jus manner in looking around induced a clerk to inquire whether he could he of service. The seedy-looking indi- vidual hesitated, but apparently gath- ing up courage confided that he heard and read in the newspapers consider- able concerning City Collector Hook and his- distribution of cigars. “I have been anxious to see one of those, cigars for a long time,” said the taxpayer confidingly. “I want one for a souvenir.” The clerk obligingly walked into the collector’s office, but he was out. : “I'll come back in a day or two,” said the seedy gentleman as he made for the door. worth a whole lot to me.”—Baltimore American. ' putting them into water. The Landes of Gascony are | “That cigar will be | 1 15 to 60 feet. A striking example is a It has been a very trying period for | diver snapped at work on an old wreck. everyone. We regret that our own ranks A Forty-five feet of water was between are depleted. But we are not earning @ him and the camera, and the reef in the enough to fill them. It is time to stand | background, 75 feet away, is clearly in together, to pull together, for peace, for focus. happiness, and for prosperity. re——— : May the New Year bring good cheer, Remember that your birthright is good will, and clearing skies for us all. | health. A diseased condition is un- S. C. Long, i natural. Nature hates disease. She is Carbon From Gas. Engineers have long been trying to discover an economical way of produc- ing carbon from natural gas. Under the methods now in use there is such an enormous waste of gas that the process is too expensive. Harry Bea- com of Wilsonburg, Harrison County, W. Va., has been studying this matter General Manager. always working against it, trying to | cleanse it as a blot on her dominion. But Working Women | Nature cannot work without material. off in the distance huge snow storms are | “I suppose they were not angry—the hiding the ugliness made by the falling | women who came to do the sewing?” leaves and the bared rice-fields. Of Some one to whotn I was telling my ex- course, the mountains, and sky, and perience said with a look of amusement clouds are still reflected in the mirror | on her countenance. “Did they ever ask lake, but I could not rave so much of the You to take part in the sewing circle, ‘ beauty as I did a month ago. The great | again, one of my friends inquired?” chenar trees are now all red and brown | “Now my friend you embarrass me I and yellow, while the poplars are tall, | Said.” : naked wraiths, like etchings against the | Did they? “she persisted.” sky. Even this river is deserting usand | “To be honest, I confess they never tomorrow, our boatman said, we must | did. be moved to deeper water or we will be left “high and dry” and then we'll have to seek new quarters. But we are leav- ing Srinegar on Thursday and so won't rrr Te e—— -—They are all good enough, but the WATCHMAN is always the best. —Subscribe for the WATCHMAN. who are exposed to the strain of daily | If you do not eat, you will starve in spite labor, the changes of weather, and who of all Nature's effort. You must eat must work no matter how they feel, are | good food. Nature cannot make bad the most liable to “female troubles.” | food into good flesh and good blood. If Irregular periods, and suppression, lead | you eat good food and your stomach is to more serious diseases until the wan | diseased the food you eat fouls. It is face, the shadowed eyes, the nervous | here that Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical twitchings of the body all tell the story ' Discovery finds its place. It is made to of serious derangement of the delicate | assist Nature; to give her what she womanly organs or arrest of their func- | lacks. It removes the diseased condition tions. In all such cases Dr. Pierce’s | of the stomach and organs of digestion scientifically and experimentally for many years, and now he announces that he has found a method whereby hie produces a black without any esh and far superior to that made under the older processes, and whereby the waste of gas is almost entirely elimi- nated. Population of India. The population of. British India is given as 231,085,132. The figures are Favorite Prescription has wonderful efficacy. It quickly restores regularity, and gives health to the diseased parts. The nervousness ceases, the cheeks be- come full and bright. The whole body reflects the conditions of perfect health. When constipation clogs the system br Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets work won- ers. | and nutrition, so that good food is not fouled before being made into blood and flesh. It eliminates poisonous and effete material, and so prepares the way of Nature and makes her paths straight. In the whole range of medicines there is nothing which will heal the stomach and cleanse the blood like “Golden Medical Discovery.” for some ten years ago, and it would not be far out of the way to put the present population at 235,000,660. One of the Indian princes recently de- clared that if called upon India could furnish an army of between seven and ten millions of men. FOR AND ABOUT WOMEN DAILY THOUGHT. i i The beautiful is the most useful in art; but the sublime in art is the most helpful to mortals, for it elevates the mind. — Joubert. ! The primrose is a Chineses blossom, ‘but it has a gallant way of thriving under neglect and blooming in adverse ; conditions that is famously characteristic . of another nation. It will stand a more varied range of temperature than any other house plant. It will live through the winter, from ‘early autumn until summer and never i for a day will it be without a flower. i Although it is such a hardy little plant, ' the blossom is delicate enough, a cluster : of small flowers on one stem, sometimes : pink and sometimes lavender, and, occa- sionally almost a faint blue. It doesn’t depend on sunshine, nor . does it require shade; it can be watered { too much or watered too little and it seems to adapt itself to circumstance | rather than to make any demands of its own. In washing a silk waist, use only luke- warm or cold water and a neutral soap. As rubbing displaces the fibers, silk must be washed by squeezing or sousing in Never rub on a board or rub the soap on silk. Do not wring by twisting, as the fibers will break. Use the wring- er. Rinse thoroughly. If a little stiffen- ing is desired, a solution of gum water is usually used. Two teaspoonfuls of gum arabic to half a pint of cold water. Dip the waist in and squeeze out with your hands. Unless a gloss is desired, iron on the wrong side. Use only mod- erately hot irons.— Newark News. When durable wicker furniture is used for rocking chairs and reading tables it is wise to have it freshly painted each spring. This not only prolongs the life of the wicker but gives a fresh, neat ap- pearance to the open-air room. Chairs, table, swinging seat and other furnish- ings are especially attractive when they are painted in bronze brown or dull green, or in mission paint. In mixing the desired color remember to use a good proportion of japan drier with the lin- seed oil and turpentine to insure a dry, glossy finish with no danger of sticki- ness. A splendid shoe polish can be made by mixing a little milk with ordinary black- ing. After rubbing a small quantity on the leather very little “elbow grease” will be required. Should you spill hot fat on the floor, or on a wooden table, pour cold water upon it at once. It can then be more easily scraped off, not having had time to sink into the wood. Freshness of eggs may be tested by J A fresh egg will remain at the bottom, one not so fresh will float a little higher, and a bad one will rise to the surface. Instead of always folding tablecloths and sheets lengthways fold them the other way, as they are less likely to wear out if the folds be occasionally changed. Jam which has been laid aside long and has got hard and sugary and unfit ' for use can be made quite as good as when new if it is put into the oven for a little while till the sugar melts, and then left to cool. i a Already, with no sign of budding leaf of pussy willow, are we beginning to think of our spring garments, and a ques- tion arises in our feminine mindsas to what lines will be the rage and what the ' popular and smart fabrics will be and ! just what style shoes will be worn. Not | sufficient to the day is the fashion there- ! of for the well-dressed woman. Ever is : she planning ahead what is to be worn ‘tomorrow and the day after, and the i day after that, with only a deprecating i squint.into the mirror at the clothes of | today. i Fortunately, the frocks of the spring ‘do not represent the lines of any one ' period. There is, instead, a variety of ‘ideas gleaned from different sources. In | some instances these are combined into | beautiful and harmonious wholes, but | one must guard against the combinations 1 of periods that produce little better than mongrel effect. In many instances, how- . ever, gowns of different periods will. be | kept virtually intact, with here and there | a slight touch to modernize them. This | separation of periods and consequent dif- | ference of lines in the season’s frocks ' will enable women of different types to i find that style of frocks which are most | becoming to them. ] { The ultra-fashionable spring frocks i will be quite short, and have a slightly | raised waist-line, or the real empire ef- | fect. The more conservative frocks will i have longer skirts and normal waist { lines. Skirts with tiered flouncesor a i succession of ruffles are found among ‘ the advanced models displayed. At this | the slender woman and young girl should ' rejoice. Some frock skirts are a succes- . sion of little ruffles. The extremely long i tunic over a narrow underskirt seems loth to go. It is found in some smart | frocks that are for spring wear. Among the materials for spring frocks . are displayed silks, covert cloths, serges, | gabardines, etc. Taffeta should be high in spring favor from present indications. ; Spring taffeta is expected to be much , stiffer in finish than the soft taffetas of | the winter season. Besides being used for entire gowns, taffeta will be com- bined with heavier materials, such as | serge, gabardine, satin and satin voiles. : Faille and poplin and similar corded silks will be used for spring, as will also crepe , de chine and various satin-finished silks. {The cotton situation has affected fash- ions to the extent that cotton materials . will probably be used much earlier and , more extensively this coming spring than | ever before. Manufacturers have woven | some tempting and effective materials in | cotton that will doubtless empty the | purses of those women whose chief hobby ,is_ beautiful materials. These cottons | will be found in various printed designs ' and scattered floral patterns, and a new ! black-and-white effect is that of , flowers upon a white ground. White grounds having stripes in black or in color, even to the width of one and a-half inches. black ——If you always want to have the . best take the WATCHMAN and you'll . have it.
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